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Then you should have no issue naming a distro that is a 1:1 equal of Windows 10 or maybe even 7, but with none of the enshittification and only upsides.
Lay down your selection critia. What features does Windows 10 have that you want a Linux equivalent for, and what does the Linux equivalent need to have for you to consider it 1:1.
Distro isn't important, for a novice user the defference, basically, is what software is in the official repository, and how easy it is to google shit. Unless you chose something very obscure somehow, you'll be fine.
That's an impossible metric. No OS will be 1:1 equal to another, that's just ridiculous. But plenty of distros are ready today to replace common use cases. Maybe it won't replacy yours, but it can replace a lot of people's.
Not to beat a dead horse since I'm sure it always comes up, but Linux Mint does literally everything I want to do on my computer, and maybe a little bit more than my work computer that runs Windows.