If you were to install Linux on a laptop for someone, what distro would you use?

My head tells me Linux Mint, but my heart says listen to your head. Why is this hard? 😂

Ideally it would be a laptop/distro pairing that is officially supported by the laptop vendor. For better or worse, I think most often the distro is Ubuntu or Red Hat.

I’ve never used for-fee subscription distros like Ubuntu Pro or RHE, but if someone had the money to burn and a viable use case, I wouldn’t stop them.