Desktop. I believe minimal is basically CLI-only.

arch if you have time

endeavour if you don't. you can delete the endeavour parts in the os and you will have a pure arch installation. i recommend plasma.

for beginners mint. it is not on the latest kernel therefore modern computers may not work with it.

fedora is the most modern linux with the latest kernel. you can also run it with plasma.

if you want ubuntu for any reason (i do not know any) i recommend kubuntu.

video editor for linux.

i have personally used blender, openshot and kdenlive. all have their advantages and disadvantages. i liked kdenlive the best for editing videos from my small sony actioncam for utube. i had more than 5000 viewers but i was banned from youtube because i reported about the fake disease and about many protests. they said terms of use violations. you know that...

then i put the videos on bitchute but hardly anyone watched it.

meanwhile there are more opensource free video editors available. i recommend that you try it out which one works best for your projects.

https://www.tecmint.com/best-free-video-editing-softwares-for-linux/

you can try xubuntu

if you do not like xubuntu you can open the terminal and type

sudo apt-get purge xubuntu

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

it will install gnome

or you type

sudo apt-get purge xubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

it will install plasma which is the most beautiful and most adjustable desktop. it is also friendlier on ressources than gnome

you will still run ubuntu but with a different desktop

you can do the same with arch, just the commands are different

and of course also with fedora which has the rpm red hat suse package manager