Overhaul Linux distro recommendations

[redoomed1]

I’m marking this thread as invalid and closing it because the initial post, as well as OP’s follow-up replies, don’t clearly propose an actionable change to the website. There are a few angles from OP’s critique of the current recommendations that can lead to actionable changes, though.

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@whoami17

What’s wrong with a distro like Mint or Pop!_OS?

If you want to suggest Linux Mint as a recommended Linux distro on the site, feel free to open a Site Development > Tool Suggestions thread for it. If you want to suggest Pop!_OS, feel free to chime in on the existing thread:

Add Pop!_OS

I love Pop!_OS and I think it’s a much better choice than fedora for people who aren’t as worried about security and just want to stop supporting surveillance capitalism. I understand that there are numerous security issues with frozen release cycles and with Ubuntu-based distros in general. However, based on my experience with Fedora, it is not a great recommendation for people new to linux. You don’t get basic features by default like a dock or tray icons. You have to dig around figuring out …

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@whoami17

My concern is that being marketed as a guide, this probably means less tech literate types may be lulled into a false sense of security without say, a bit of a warning that you, the user, should be setting up a MAC and probably some additional sandboxing/isolation measures yourself.

If you want to suggest that we place a higher emphasis on the warnings already woven into the Arch recommendation that @hashcatHitman succinctly brought up, feel free to open a separate Site Development thread for it.