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Let's not reach for the "this guy doesn't want to learn" excuse because that's you shifting the blame on me, and instead focus on the "this experience has been more frustrating than it needs to be as a first step in adopting an OS and growing the user base". If I didn't want to learn, I wouldn't have bothered to look how to fix the USB after simply cancelling the installation. In what world is that normal? That bug has been around for ages. Also, your installer fatally errors out without a clear cause. Not only was it frustrating, but my time and effort were also wasted. So please, at least take the time to understand what I mean...
What flavor of Linux were you trying to install? My experience on endeavoros has been pretty plug and play. I imagine it would be similar on mint, Ubuntu, fedora, Debian. If it was Linux from scratch, yeah that's likely going to be frustrating.
It was Mint, which is why I found it odd. I've also used Ubuntu years ago, but that wasn't plug-n-play either from what I remember. I spent too much time getting my sound and video cards running, and then spent twice that time getting Compiz to work so I could have all the cool effects. 😅
Truth is windows has plenty of bugs too, the main difference is that it comes pre installed so you don't have to deal with the install bugs, and you're already acclimated to all its quirks so you don't notice them as much.
As for Mint, it gets recommended a lot because it's stable and looks a lot like windows, but it's old and slow to update to modern standards, you can always go for a more bleeding edge distribution like fedora.