My list of requirements is non-existent except that it would be nice to easily out of the box be able to play games and have a tiling window manager.
I come from Windows10 so, no real demands or philosophical needs about the OS other than that it would be nice to avoid ads in the OS as much as possible.
For a tiling wm, I'd not prefer Ubuntu. Ubuntu works best when you just accept the default way of doing things.
I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my past experience (maybe it's different 10-15 years later) the distro annoyed me sometimes with the rigor of its anti-proprietary stance. Software which I expected to be available in the package manager turned out to be unavailable because the license wasn't up to debian standards. I like the gentoo approach that, although only Free Software is available by default, you can still add overrides for specific packages.
I guess if debian doesn't work out, you can always try Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Void. Distro-hopping exists as a trope for a reason :)
I come from Windows10 so, no real demands or philosophical needs about the OS other than that it would be nice to avoid ads in the OS as much as possible.