in my experience one of the biggest hurdles people have when switching to Linux the first time is one of attitude. They just expect Linux to be a drop in replacement for Windows and work exactly the same. It doesn’t though. It’s a completely different operating system. So when all of the little quirks and features they’ve learned from Windows don’t quite work the same in Linux they don’t stop to try to learn HOW these things might work in Linux, they instead ask how they can make Linux work the way it does in Windows. Which of course leads them down a rabbit hole of tweaking things. Now don’t get me wrong, a lot of DEs are already really similar to windows out of the box and can usually be tweaked even further to emulate Windows quirks, but this is not a good experience for a new user. They get the impression that Linux is hard and requires all this effort to “get it right” when really they just need to learn. I think if distros spent time creating interactive new user orientation guides that went over a bunch of these things it would be helpful in that regard.