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Pop OS is the best to start with, it's awesome.
heard it works best with nividia's gpu's, I have an AMD GPU on a decent laptop, is that good enough?
So basically nvidia makes their drivers on Linux a pain to install and use and Linux's creator has called them out on it in the past. So PopOS is known for having tools that make getting them working easier.
AMD on the other hand has open source drivers so they are right in the kernel. So their GPUS are just plug and play like a USB mouse