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As an avid user who has primarily used Windows and Linux only for recovery purposes when Windows goes tits up , I've been playing with Nobara and Linux mint on a small 180gb SSD and I'm intimidated by the terminal knowledge that is needed when things don't go right .
I also have a steam deck so technically I've been playing with arch btw
As opposed to the trial and error required when things don't go right on Windows? :)
Let's be honest to ourselves - for more complex problems, we'd be pretty much dead in the water without an internet search engine on either system. However, on Linux, at least you can do failure tree isolation relatively systematic: narrow the issue down, and eventually fix it (or find out it's not fixable, e.g. certain driver compatibility for specific hardware). For windows, it's mostly trial and error until you find "the right solution". Rarely is there any good resource for narrowing your problem down, mostly because of the absence of good advice for terminal commands, or because each windows version shuffles settings around to a new place / config file and holds duplicates and triplicates of settings god-knows-where.
I remember back in the 2000s when I tried to isolate a problem this never worked out. Too vague, too little understanding of what's what. If it wasn't for the help of one more experienced user in our campus, I would've given up pretty soon.
I hope things are better now, as I haven't been using Linux for quite some time and consider going back but this time there will be no one to ask
Now you have the internet and arch wiki.
The internet was already present then. The Arch wiki though…
Well, I'll just hope things are better now and give it a go
I don't feel like the Linux communities were really a friendly space in the early 2000s. And the Ubuntu forums felt like they became powerful in 2010. I played around with Linux briefly in 2005 and felt like there wasn't much support for solving certain issues.
And when in doubt, ask chatgpt. It may give you a wrong answer but it can point you in the right direction.
And you can always send me a question if you run up against something. I'm not an expert by any means but I've made it my daily driver for a couple years now.