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This kind of thing is why backups / snapshots are so important to do. On Linux we actually get that option so much more easily than on Windows, so it's worth doing. On Windows, updates are painful enough that out of habit I just reinstall Windows every year to head this problem off.
Not trying to minimize your pain, it's something I had to learn to deal with too and it does take time and energy to properly resolve, which isn't free. The experience will also vary dramatically between distros and hardware.
Lastly if you're a long time Windows user try to remember what it was like when you were new, when you had no idea how the pieces connect to each other; it takes time to get into the groove.
Oh, definitely! I am by no means trying to say Linux is inferior in anyway whatsoever, but I do think they need people like me to use the system in a way they may not have anticipated to have things improve for everyone, if that makes sense? Like, I can probably mess up most Linux installs simply by trying to replicate the workflow that has worked for me for years with no issues on Windows!
I don't feel like you're minimizing, I feel like you're sharing your experience, and I appreciate you for that! I just feel like bringing these pain points up in the hope that someone might have an answer for me or others, I guess?
I started using Windows when I was 10 or 11, and got a virus, learned from it, and never had an issue with Windows again. I even learned how to mod my games back in those days (Oblivion with it's simple enough for most things drag and drop modding). Basically, I can navigate most GUI and get the thing I was looking for working, but the moment you bring terminal commands to my eyeballs, I start thinking "this is how my machine gets ruined today, eh?" lol ;P
But, yes, once I got more comfortable in openSUSE and KDE, it is very hard to even consider going back to Windows or another distro since it took so much time for me to set my computer up the way I like it.
Completely valid and I encourage you to keep doing so. Denying there are usability problems does not fix them.