I would recommend against Tumbleweed simply because Ive had updates break it on more than one occasion, so perhaps not the best for a new user. A shame since I otherwise really like Tumbleweed.
Fully agreed.
@Sylvia due to the community factor and the fact that a lot of documentation assumes that a debian based distro is being used, I would probably stick with mint. Mint is itself starting its transition to Wayland, if it wasnt that would be a different matter