Electrum is on the short list of everyone's favorite bitcoin wallet you can use on your laptop. The newest Electrum version enables replace by fee and dynamic fees which make it the most versatile wallet I know of. If you don't know RBF it means if you send a transaction with too low a fee and it takes too long to confirm you can boost the fee with just a few clicks.
Electrum also works flawlessly with Trezor and Nano S hardware wallets if you want the best security for your bitcoin. Electrum is free and a Ledger Nano S is $65 and that combination gives you state of the art bitcoin storage. The interface is minimalistic so read the
docs to get started.