Mint is for everyone. It’s still one of my favourite distro as it’s reliable, yet not too far behind. It’s also batteries included so I’d say it’s the best distro for learning, and you can stick to it too.

Went to nix for nerdy reason, but my emergency distro is still my old mint partition

I’ve always been running Ubuntu- or Debian-derived distros on all my laptops and desktops since I switched to Linux, including those specifically billed as “low in resource use” (Crunchbang/Bunsenlabs FTW). Works great, very little hassle.