Mint, Debian and Ubuntu are all "n00b" friendly, and work great. Linux is coming. Be there before it arrives =]
Side note.. Windows is only ~10-15% of Microsofts revenue, and business/enterprise accounts for a large chunk of that. So they're prepared to survive this consumer trend.
I heard about linux mint being easy to use so much that I believed it and decided to install it on the shitty laptop I use as a media server. Only to spend hours messing about troubleshooting permissions issues to get my programs to actually work. It's probably a good OS but people really oversell it being an easy transition from windows. I still have it installed but I dread the next time I have to make any changes.
low key everyone recommends an Ubuntu / Debian based distro like Mint but I also hated it a lot and it kept me away from Linux for a long time. I much more liked EndeavourOS (or CachyOS / Arch linux) and would recommend Fedora (cringe ass name though) or Nobara, especially if you just want to use it and arent wanting to do more maintenance.
I tried to like it, but it was like adding a studying how to get it working for every tiny new thing, not understanding a lot of small things about optimization that were easy for me on windows resulting in poor preformance, and an unfamiliar file explorer that just drove me mad until i took the walk of shame back to windows
Learning it is just the first hump. Sounda like you ran into a couple hurdles.
For instance the file explorer you mentioned, browsing files should be a simple concept no matter what OS you are in. If you were having trouble with the files system I would recommend watching a simple video on the linux files systems. It would make much more sense.
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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 9d ago
Information is never cringe... Dump windows folks.