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I'm in the same boat myself. Windows is and has been my daily driver since the days of Windows 3.1. Over the past few months, I began a path learning web development and I've been using WSL on Windows 11 to learn. I picked up an old laptop and I'm currently installing Debian with KDE Desktop hoping I to find a life raft out of the Windows world for reasons unknown.
If you're super used to Windows, Mint is also worth a try if Debian with KDE isn't to your liking
I was running Mint on an old Macbook Pro a few months ago. I couldn't get over the battery drain so I put MacOS back on it. Hopefully the battery drain isn't a as bad on a newer Asus laptop.
Mostly battery drain has less to do with your distro so much as your CPU governor settings and other power management settings, at least IMO