Comment by tapoxi

My newbie recommendation is https://bazzite.gg/. It ships a very simple GUI package manager and the system silently updates in the background. It's also atomic, so rollbacks are easy and destroying the system is hard. It's not a separate distro per-se but a layer atop Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (you can re-base to/from them without a reinstall).

It's been my daily driver for ~2 years.

The Cachy/Arch approach is more flexible, I'm fine with atomic since containerized workflows are my preference.