Good points.

Sry for not being clear enough. Arch is for someone who wants to go deeper into linux. I’d never recommend arch for new users,

If someone was able to add a printer to windows, she’s able to add codecs to linux.

I understand your point, yet (e.g.) fedora doesn’t hide codecs, they are just not preinstalled. Could it be better? Yes. But it’s not like it was unsuitable.

Imo the choice dilemma isn’t really a dilemma. If you choose any of the 5 or 10 big distros, you are good to go. Neither is a really bad choice. Oftentimes it’s just the default that’s not perfect. But as soon as you’re on one distro, a default value is no reason to switch distros.

Btrfs, snapper, immutability, etc. those are reasons to switch, not the default values.