My recommendation is, don’t go with any of the distros you haven’t heard of before.

At some point, you will need to google “<distroname> how do I…” many many times. It is much better if you have something popular and common to do that in.

I have tried to approach this off the basic principle of “Oh, it’s basically Fedora!” on a few distributions but it doesn’t work as reliably as you’d like.