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Unfortunately Linux does not "work like a charm" and you need a fucking degree in command line to use it because that's the way Linux developers and users like it.
This was back in 1765. The world has changed since then. I hardly ever touch the terminal. That's another bullshit story some people tell you.
You're lying.
Lol. I am not. Try it out for yourself. If you run a "works out of the box" distro, you'll not need to touch the terminal, unless you choose to. Try Linux mint, fedora, zorin OS, elementary OS, Ubuntu, pop os.. Etc. On those, you literally won't need to touch the terminal for your day to day work. Everything works.
I've been "trying it myself" for over a year. It's a giant pain in the ass. And that's for someone who is tech-literate.
Sounds like a you issue. I promise, I'm not lying, I don't ever need to use the terminal, unless I choose to, or in some rare instances. Pick a simple works out of the box distro
For real. Literally yesterday, reboot my computer and Nvidia drivers that had worked fine the day before no longer functioned resulting in my screen resolution being reduced and unchangeable.
Had to run a few commands to fix it but they are not obvious to me as a new-ish Linux user. Something about dkms being a dependency but not configured?
To recover, I had to:
sudo apt purge nvidia-*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/
sudo apt install nvidia-dkms-550
(Reinstall Nvidia 550 drivers)
Why did I have to do all this? I ask that rhetorically, but Id like to know so I can understand what went wrong. Linux is non-trivial and people who deny that are not seeing things clearly. Then again, triviality of use isn't particularly the most salient to me. Rather, it's a mixture of is there enough compatibility to what I use my desktop for, is it reasonably easy to use for most tasks, and does it give me the freedom I want for the device.