They are going the way normies would, which includes asking the LLM of choice for a recommendation. But as they just regurgitate listicles inhaled from the web, that is what you get.
Bazzite and Cachy are the more sane choices, though Luke is by no means counting as a Linux noob
You have a point, but most normies aren’t even aware that an operating system is just a piece of software their computer runs that can be swapped out for a different piece of software. They see the OS as an integral, immutable part of the system… which of course is totally wrong, but that’s seriously how they see it.
The people you describe are a step higher on the food chain, so to speak. They definitely exist, and I think they make up the majority of people who are getting into Linux, but let’s not forget how little the average person knows or cares about technology works.
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