Not a linux guru by any means, but I would start with something simple. My first distro was Red Hat, but it drove me crazy getting it done.
My very first computer was a Mac SE, operating off those floppy drives. I thought it elegant, but only used it to do cool graphics and typesetting for our church bulletins (I was a pastor, and would go places to "start" new churches).
When family health issues moved me to my background (Chemistry, where I kind of morphed into an environmental engineer), I "backed into" Linux thru commodity trading. I traded on the side, and then left my job to go to the floor and trade. I used to make markets in wheat options (floor trader) and have always thought math was "beautiful" even if I am not naturally gifted in it. I became enamored with the idea of spotting small mathematical divergences from a linear regression and using a trading system that focused on selling option premiums (going short the option, or short a spread) to wait for a return to the normal bias. I would download LARGE amounts of data and look for deviations from the line.... I started out using MS Windoze 3.1, which had a cap on memory from the DOS that was a part of it. (Windoze was a gui that sat on top of dos). You could "watch" the calcs shift in and out of that 640K packet of memory as LOTUS 123 did 35 years of price analysis to look for patterns. Many of the systems would take 8-14 hours to run to backcheck them.
I was ecstatic when I discovered OS/2, an IBM OS which utilized all the RAM you could throw at it. It would zip thru those calcs in 15 mins (or less!). I paid $600 dollars (I think that is right) for 4 meg of RAM (it was a fabulous deal at the time, and I was rocking and rolling!
I became a MS hater then, as I discovered an alt-world that pointed out the horrible spaghetti code ugliness of everything MS. I saw Steve Monkey Man Ballmer as just a thug, propaganda artist, and incredibly dishonest man, who feared OS/2 for all the reasons I loved it. Win 95, which was a piece of excrement, killed OS/2, and I just kept it on a separate machine to run trading systems.
I discovered Linux about the time Red Hat came out with the first family of gui interfaces. I was not a codehead, and had to teach myself how to make the @&!($#&^ thing work, but I recognized the potential of open source. I even toyed with the idea of learning coding and trying to write/develop, but was unsure if this was a wise course, as I had just taken a 6 figure hit in my trading equity (I have gone bust twice trading), and wanted a steady income.
Not too long afterward, I discovered MEPIS, a distro released by a brilliant but socially maladapted guy that finally made linux "easy" for non gearheads. About this time, Linux became virtual systems friendly for the average guy, and I began to run windows "inside" linux at my work ( owned an insurance brokerage by that time, having transitioned out of engineering). I did Ubuntu for a while, and transitioned to Mint, which was easy for my wife and kids to "get."
It is not very robust for heavy duty photo and film editing (but then again, neither is Windows/Photoshop... you really should get a Mac for that).
Over the years, I have watched colleagues struggle with viruses, oceans of protective software and patches and firewallstuff, deal with scammers, piddle with the nonsense that MS foists on people, pay outrageous upgrade and support fees etc etc. I ran my business software in a virtual box, which gave me fantastic security. I had stupid secretaries who would go to sites and d/l music and get viruses IN MY VIRTUAL WINDOZE BOX, which I could just nuke and restore. I had total control over what went onto my network, and I had two teenage daughters who were typical silly twits who were totally irresponsible in the sites they visited (my wife, too!), and I never suffered any issues about security. No virus checkers, no worms, no nothing. I use "GIMP" for image manipulation, and I don't play games online. If all you do is read email, chat, surf the web, play music, and do social media, with its attendant picture posting and receiving, along with some spreadsheet calcs, online banking etc, there is precisely ZERO excuse not to use linux. Spend a few hours learning some basics, and you will breathe easier.
I would recommend MINT if you have a robust and vigorous system (or MANJARO, which I dont have but have heard it also is very noobie friendly), or one of the older versions like PUPPY if you have an old antiquated machine (I used Puppy on a laptop that could only take less than a gig of ram and it ran like a song).
There are lots of guys in this forum WAY smarter than me who would probably help you set up your machine for beer and a pizza (or less).
You should try it.