For daily driver or server usage? Server still has Debian as top dog since its a deploy and forget distribution. Arch Linux is probably your best daily driver since all of the packages are fresh, though you're going to be forced into a somewhat tedious install process via command line. 

 +1 for Arch, I prefer pacman and Aur helpers over apt.

I used a fork named Antergos, which made the install ezpz. Antergos is dead now, but its spiritual successor is EndeavorOS. 

 This is for a woman 

 Linux Mint then, the UI is similar to Windows and once on a LTS you can forget about it for a few years. 

 Thanks been a decade since I've used mint but I'll give it a shot