Great article, but:
“A user-friendly distribution like Ubuntu can be an excellent choice for individuals wary of privacy and ethical issues surrounding AI,” says Taylor. “It provides a robust and user-friendly environment that minimizes the tracking and data collection you’d typically encounter with macOS or Windows.”
It’s been quite a few years since I used desktop Ubuntu, but I remember the Unity DE back then being not so user-friendly, at least for someone coming from the Windows paradigm. I’ve heard (but could be misinformed) that it’s gotten even more opinionated over the years. Something like Mint is likely to be a better option for a first-time user.
Also, I wish the article had mentioned Proton. It states that you may have to be willing to abandon certain games, but that’s far from the reality these days. At least through Steam nearly everything works right out of the box just by enabling Proton.
The majority of people play at least some competitive games and most of those simply don’t work due to anticheats. These game usually are also the most important ones to them.
Steam currently has 35M peak daily active users. Out of the top 10 Games by player count only 2 dont work on proton: Pubg and CoD, those two together have a daily peak of 0.7M players. At number 11 you are already down to 0.07M daily peak.
I think your definition of “most” leaves something to be desired.