I will weigh in here… I use Fedora on my personal laptop.
It depends really what your goals are. I would give two distros some consideration
Ubuntu. Always popular with AI types. You should have access to the latest versions of all packages.
Your call if you want to go with the very bleeding edge, or stick with an ‘LTS’ - Long Term Support version.
If you are more of an HPC type, CentOS was the choice up until recently. However with the hoo-hah over CentOS Stream the Rocky distribution may be taking the prime spot in HPC.
Big caveat here - I have no idea how Rocky works on a laptop.
There are of course many other Linux distributions. SuSE comes to mind as a leading distro also.
For beginner use look at Mint Linux. I have never used it but it is well thought of. Mint is based on Ubuntu