Comment by Wytwwww

> Recommendations Stay away from Nvidia

Unless you need to use the GPU for actual work and not gaming then you need CUDA etc.

Nvidia seems fine though as long as you use the installer they provide (as the other comment suggested) for some reason all(?) distro developers can't come up with functional workflows for installing it any other way.

> People which believe they need to install “drivers“ themselves

Do you think that's something people need to do often these days on Windows 10/11?

> support the weird „Desktop Metapher“

What's weird is/was Gnome trying to appeal to mobile users for no reason (at least MS had some justification for the Windows 8). Of course there is KDE if you need a normal desktop.

> with exception of the awful thing named Electron

Perhaps it's awful. But it's something a lot of potential non-power users actually need and care about (unlike LIBC/LIBSTDC++ or Coretuils)

> Use old ThinkPads if you have not special requirements

Like a semi-decent screen? Also why bring up HiDPI-Scaling then?

> teaching the users to read the interface (like a book or an info grahic),

It would be nice if GUI app interfaces were at least semi-consistent on most Linux apps (of course Windows is also terrible at this and Apple are the only ones who managed to get it right).

Honestly, I don't see Linux progressing that much as long as mindsets like this (blaming the users for not using their computers in the right way and telling them what they "actually" need) remain widespread.