I said this was my experience and there is a reason why I started using/recommending these apps. A lot of people would just simply disagree with you claiming that Firefox or Chromium have nothing wrong.
You’re writing a guide how to switch to GNU/Linux. If you want to discuss browsers, do it in another guide. If someone wants to switch operating systems, confusing them with browser choices isn’t helping.
Again, this has been my experience. And the title does say ‘comprehensive’ guide. Not a quick guide.
You’re also saying the guide is for people who recently got interested in switching to Linux. Those people don’t need to hear about Arch. They don’t need to understand what immutable distribution is. A comprehensive guide for that target audience should focus on comprehensively describing one or two distributions targeted at that target audience.
But not everyone will be looking for X11 support and therefore Mint.
Someone who just started looking into switching to Linux is looking for neither X11 nor Wayland support.
And wrt Bazzite, not everyone will want to use an atomic distro.
That’s why I wrote ‘if your entire focus is gaming.’ People who just want to play games, don’t care. They just want their stuff to work.
I see you want to simply stuff and just ask people to resort to one or two things. But that’s not going to stop people. They’re going to experiment different things.
Of course. But the way I see it, that’s not the target audience. Someone who so far had been using exclusively Windows, does not need to be front-loaded with all that information. Describe Mint in detail, especially pointing out differences they can face between Mint and Windows, and mention that other distributions also exist if they want to try them in the future.
You say this is a comprehensive guide, but it’s comprehensive in the sense that it touches on a lot of different topics. It goes broad with its scope, but for a new user going in more detail with typical Mint installation would be more useful.
For those who are only on Linux, I’ve been told that running fsck(file system consistency check) on a corrupted NTFS drive may not go well. Hence the reason I asked them to convert it to ext4.
I reckon converting would lead to more lost data than just using NTFS partition. This also locks users into using the drive under Linux. I just don’t think this is a useful recommendation for someone who is just switching from Windows.
I’m honestly not sure how much people care. Lemmy and Reddit will have one believe X11 is unusable, and yet I’m still using it on two monitors and I don’t feel any disadvantage at not having HDR or different refresh rates. However, I don’t really want to argue on that part.
My concern is that when newbies search ‘how do I install Linux,’ most sources give them a consistent answer, rather than every website having it’s own ‘top 10 distributions’ list or long articles full of technical jargon. Linux Mint is not a terrible distribution and it seems to be common recommendation which is why I’m recommending it as well. I believe it’s better we give people clear message and lose a handful who care about HDR or VRR, than lose a score intimidated by the choices and perceived difficulty.