I don’t know what distro you’re installing or what the hell you’re doing, but most of the time it’s trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.
It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you’re obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it’s a different thing and you’ll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren’t instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn’t know what they’re doing.
Well, I’ve worked with Linux before, and it wasn’t a generally smooth experience, so I went in with “it’s a different environment” in mind. But the series of events that unfolded was absurd. I was so ready and hyped to install some software that I remember from back in the day and try to emulate at least one game, but no luck. If I want to do it, I’m gonna need to dedicate some time and more effort than expected to setting up. I’ve been procrastinating because I don’t want to deal with these bugs.
For games, just use your package manager to install Steam, then install Proton from there. (IIRC it’s automatic for just the standard release version.) Steam games should mostly just work without you needing to do anything. Other games, you want to use something like Heroic or Lutris (I recommend the former) to manage them and launch them with Proton without manually doing it all every time.
If you expand on what your issues were, I’m sure plenty of people would be happy to help. Again, it should be pretty trivial, so I’m not sure what went wrong.
I can understand being frustrated, but you have to understand that your particular experience is not the norm. I’d be pretty confident saying that less than 1% of people will back out of an install half way through it or have that much of an issue installing (unless it’s Arch). So it’s not something that really needs to be fixed before people can start using Linux.
I didn’t even have that many problems setting up a dual boot with Windows in 2006 when I was a total newbie to Linux, and I had to figure out how partitioning and swap files worked.
Just ask for help in a respectful manner on your distros forum and someone will very likely be happy to assist you.
I don’t know what distro you’re installing or what the hell you’re doing, but most of the time it’s trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.
It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you’re obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it’s a different thing and you’ll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren’t instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn’t know what they’re doing.
Well, I’ve worked with Linux before, and it wasn’t a generally smooth experience, so I went in with “it’s a different environment” in mind. But the series of events that unfolded was absurd. I was so ready and hyped to install some software that I remember from back in the day and try to emulate at least one game, but no luck. If I want to do it, I’m gonna need to dedicate some time and more effort than expected to setting up. I’ve been procrastinating because I don’t want to deal with these bugs.
For games, just use your package manager to install Steam, then install Proton from there. (IIRC it’s automatic for just the standard release version.) Steam games should mostly just work without you needing to do anything. Other games, you want to use something like Heroic or Lutris (I recommend the former) to manage them and launch them with Proton without manually doing it all every time.
If you expand on what your issues were, I’m sure plenty of people would be happy to help. Again, it should be pretty trivial, so I’m not sure what went wrong.
I can understand being frustrated, but you have to understand that your particular experience is not the norm. I’d be pretty confident saying that less than 1% of people will back out of an install half way through it or have that much of an issue installing (unless it’s Arch). So it’s not something that really needs to be fixed before people can start using Linux.
I didn’t even have that many problems setting up a dual boot with Windows in 2006 when I was a total newbie to Linux, and I had to figure out how partitioning and swap files worked.
Just ask for help in a respectful manner on your distros forum and someone will very likely be happy to assist you.