Oh man, YTMND is so old that they pre-date the use of the word meme. They were called fads.

Hell yeah, I’m ready for whatever wild shit this guy is going to sprout that has no chance of becoming reality!

Look at Clonezilla. It’s a specialized Linux distro that does some interesting things, including cloning.

When I tried it I found it confusing and didn’t feel like figuring it out at the time so I just did a clean install ahaha. YMMV.

You got the typical recommendations already, my advice would be to avoid most of the niche distros. I just don’t think they offer much over something that is more mainstream, especially for your first foray.

The first distro I ran for any significant length of time was Fedora.