Newbie Distro?

I am a newbie. Ubuntu I can work with very well. However, the later
edition does not work on my hardware. Can some one offer me a (serious
and unbiased) opinion about a second choice? It needs to be graphical,
hardware friendly (an older Dell), easy to use like Ubuntu was. Thanks.
-Pete

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