It’s a personal list for newbies and it’s probably a good idea to follow this list for them. However end users are a much bigger cluster, I’m an end user too. Last time I checked I didn’t have a grey beard.

It’s my workstation and I’m using it as how I’m comfortable with it. It just requires a familiarity which newbies don’t have.

Nice personal list but I almost do the opposite of everything. I only do the not using dual boot part from this list.

Found my answer faster than I thought. Thanks though, this might be useful for people who use Hyprland.

Not sure when the last time you used openSUSE but the reason why I think it’s noob-friendly is you don’t need a terminal to update the system (talking about the KDE version here). When there is an update a notification pops up, you go to system tray, click on the icon and do the updates. You can even see a list what’s been updating. It doesn’t even ask a password, probably thanks to polkit.

They’re fine for a stable release I think. Nvidia is on 550 for example. For Major updates, ping me next year since I’ll try it then, when new Leap arrived.

Leap is surely noob-friendly.