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This is what drives me fucking nuts. Somehow everyone seems to forget that they are constantly troubleshooting "the computer" for the people that they would have to troubleshoot "Linux" for. And why is that such a complaint? After all:
Nobody who has had to deal with computers has gotten away from going through some esoteric help website with commands like "win+R," then "sysinfo" or "regex" or whatever, clicking through a five layer deep directory, and changing something. Alternatively, you might have been forced to uninstall a driver and reinstall an older version, or update bios with a usb. The only difference with linux is the instructions you'll be following will be for a terminal line, MAYBE. Just as an example of what you'll find if you're searching for help with linux. They have instructions for if you have no earthly idea what you're doing. No one can tell me that you had that much hand holding when you were having to figure out why the hell the windows update wouldn't install without giving you a bluescreen of death.