Agreed. Just put Debian on a 17" i7 Asus laptop tonight as win11 didn't like the track pad or the display adapter.
To get Chrome on, had to download a deb file, then manually open it with a right click and choose software installer since it wanted to open an archive instead.
Just little things like that are tedious for the n00b.
Good point.
Mint wouldn't run on my other Asus laptop which is why I ended up on Debian. I think it was a discrete GPU issue booting to a black screen.
I know most Linux users probably wouldn't want Chrome anyway, but since it's the most popular browser and this post is discussing the greater populace, I think it was a valid point - same as how a n00b booting to a black screen is an issue.
Having to fetch gnome tweaks to get a right click on a trackpad is another - that might just be a Debian thing.