@philip_cardella
While I don’t care for Ubuntu personally (I’ve been happily using Debian for more than 20 years), it’s likely to be the easiest onramp since it’s designed to be beginner-friendly and it’s so widely used that you’ll likely find people with experience more easily than some of the more obscure distros.
Don’t worry too much about your first distro. I went through a couple in my first few years before I found the one I was fully happy with.