Mint or Fedora(KDE) are great choices. Kubuntu, PopOS or OpenSuSE might also be suitable for beginners. Stay away from Arch-based distributions until you are at least a bit more experienced.

Intel (anything) works without problems on Linux (in fact, Intel is among the most Linux-supportive companies out there and most or all of their drivers are open source and part of the kernel, as it should be in the Linux world).

Nvidia GPUs used to be problematic in the past, it's better now, still not as great as AMD GPUs are on Linux (they're literally plug and play these days) but I think when going with the distro mentioned above it's going to be just as easy Just make sure to enable support for NVidia drivers or "enable 3rd party drivers/repositories" (you'll be asked during setup) so that those distributions will also install those slightly non-standard Nvidia packages which they might not do otherwise for "purity" reasons.