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How old is your PC? Do you game via Steam?
If it is younger than 10 years, any desktop oriented distro will work equally well.
In that case, I'd recommend Mint, just because it is the best beginner distro overall.
If you have less than 4GB of RAM, Debian with Xfce would run faster.
If it's older, then there's a (small, but getting larger with age) chance it is limited to 32bit architecture or 32bit UEFI.
Then your choice of distros becomes slim, but MX Linux would be a good choice.
Just want to point out that Linux Mint also has 32bit versions available.
That's actually kinda awesome.
I put the 32bit Linux Mint Debian Edition on a very old solo core laptop with only 1.5GB RAM just for kicks, and it actually works pretty well.
edit: though I should probably switch it out for something lighter for practicality