No. When someone wants to switch to GNU/Linux, don’t also shove your other opinions onto them. There’s nothing wrong with Firefox or Chromium, which often come preinstalled.
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. People already hate AI features being built into Firefox and don’t want google’s tentacles around their neck on chromium.
This whole section is way too long. Here’s what it should say: Use Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition. Or if your entire focus is gaming, use Bazzite.
Again, this has been my experience. And the title does say ‘comprehensive’ guide. Not a quick guide.
No new user gives a fuck what Linux distribution is. They don’t care what atomic distribution is. And talking to them about Arch can only lead to disaster.
I’ve been asked in Bluesky about what a distro is by some people. And I had to explain it to them. So yeah, they do care.
No. Do not recommend unsupported distribution which doesn’t work with the most popular GPU brand to any new users.
And that is exactly what I meant. Are you sure you’re reading it correctly? I included it and explicitly did not recommend it so that people don’t get misled from posts online making them believe that SteamOS will bring about the Year of the Linux and so on.
This section unnecessary since the previous section should already direct the new user to either Mint or Bazzite.
Mint is great. Bazzite is great.
But not everyone will be looking for X11 support and therefore Mint. And wrt Bazzite, not everyone will want to use an atomic distro.
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. Hence the ‘comprehensive’ guide. People reading carefully and having good reading comprehension will already see that I mentioned Mint to be the most friendly and popular, and also explained in detail about how one can rollback from a failed state with Bazzite.
That would already point the users, who want things to just work, towards them.
There should be no ‘if’. A new user should not do manual partitioning. If they are interested in doing it, they’re already way too advanced to read your tutorial.
I asked people to ignore it if they don’t want it. And once again, this is a ‘comprehensive’ guide.
Uh? Why? Let them use NTFS if the drive is in NTFS
I’ve explained what goes wrong with it and I’ve also stated for people who dual boot that NTFS can get corrupt and how to resolve it. 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.
If I’m wrong on this, please do shed light. I’ll correct myself on this.
Thank you for bolstering the point, my good fellow.
And Valve themselves discourage it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows