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Just use Mint.
I'm on Mint 20 and had an unreasonable number of monitor configurations. Initially tallscreen + square, then tallscreen + square + 32-inch HDTV, then tallscreen + widescreen + TV, then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV (because I ran out of desk), then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV + widescreen on the floor as a dedicated AGDQ window, and now I'm only using an enormous 4K TV.
I've had issues, but never "it can't handle it" issues. My little RX 580 occasionally produced a black frame on one monitor or other - I assume because none of them ever had identical refresh rates. The larger issue was instantly forgetting my monitor configuration every time one of them was unplugged or lost power. As if losing the square monitor caused the rotated screen to fall over.
Mint or Zorin for those with windows experience, Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh, are all great "just works" distros. Don't overthink it, OP!
Still sour about one fucking guy deciding to flip the interface to left-handed the day before a long-term feature freeze.