The articles are saying “Here is a list of almost all known versions of Linux, these are good for you to use” when you query what the best option is… Hardly narrowing down anything. Likewise saying “Use your favorite… then install the product you want to use” is also useless information if you are asking the question I was… I have no favorite obviously since I know nothing about it… and OBVIOUSLY I am going to install the produce I just asked about installing…
The pages I was looking at answered the question “How do I install Linux?” by saying “First, Install Linux”
Not to say there aren’t better sources, but all the first ones I found where along that theme