Privacy is a thing of the past with modern cars, phones, cameras everywhere/facial recognition, NSA, evidence laundering, credit cards, TPMS censors, etc… we need new laws to restore privacy.

It doesn’t matter that much, but I like Arch… it’s a bit of a pain to install if you are new to Linux though. I find it more stable than Manjaro though.

Your decision probably should depend on if you like KDE or Gnome and if you want the latest software or something a bit more stable.

You could also try the live version first before you install it to make sure everything works as intended.