Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop.

What’s corporate slop? Mint is just a mediocre rebrand with a different default DE, and way less maintainers/testers (which is why there are so many people asking why X doesn’t work, where “X” is a basic thing any other distro does effortlessly)

Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they’ve been sandboxed…

Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you’re confused?

As for fedora… what does it offer better?

Than Mint? The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability. The average windows user isn’t going to sign up to a web forum to post a question asking how to fix something that doesn’t work, they’ll just go back to Windows.

The best way to avoid that is to not recommend a fragile OS like Mint. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Bazzite are all far better choices.