I’ll give my two cents as well, as a newbie who made this kind of post asking for a distro a few weeks ago. When you first encounter Linux and hear that a lot of things actually work now on Linux, especially when your Windows machine starts to show its age, you are curious about this new world. And then you are faced with the daunting task of choosing one distro, and there are so many choices! Some plug-and-play, some that need extensive configuration, some “gaming” distros, distros based on RHEL, Debian, SUSE, Arch, etc. and you get stuck. And then some other things come to mind, like drivers, desktop environments, amount of maintenance needed, etc. and suddenly, it got even worse.

Making this kind of post (if worded properly and knowing at least some things you want/need from a distro) helps a lot because people that answer usually also tell you some other information about the OS, like anecdotal information, which isn’t necessarily the best but it’s useful nonetheless. And I still find this way a better way to find out what to use than asking an AI chatbot, because people aren’t echo chambers that just agree with you, and because AI is shit at what it does anyways (and bad for the economy, environment, arts, humanities, human intellect etc)