I love mint but maybe we should include a disclaimer that it's lack of wayland is a problem for certain people.

I kept reading comments from users on other sites about stuff like multiple monitors or HDR or VRR (which technically works but in the graphic's driver and not on the desktop, it's not easy to turn on like in Plasma) keeping them from switching to linux and realized we maybe shouldn't make the x11 distro the go-to recommendation for the average, non gaming user.

Sure, you can install Plasma, but first impressions matter. There's lazy, and then there's "this isn't just working like I was promised because they lack Wayland" and Mint is the latter for these people (fun fact, Plasma was once an official edition, they nixed it but kept MATE, who even uses that?)

But these are niche, right? Well, 3 niches is three times the users disappointed, and frankly, in nerdy tech spaces like this, they aren't exactly niche. It's like the number of games that don't work on linux is like 10%, but there's a GOOD chance the average user has at least ONE game that doesn't work.

I guess for these people we recommend K/Ubuntu, Pop or Zorin. Same ease of use, but with wayland support out of the box.