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i dont know what you are using but the general linux experience hasn't been like this in years. and even if there is a problem now and then a bit of googling generally is all it needs. the one thing you cannot get around is malware like kernel level anticheats. that's windows only.
having a backup is good advice no matter what system you use
Yeah, same in my experience: updates do not breaks things in debian-derivatives at least. That's how I managed "well" without backup. That said, linux support is certainly hit-or-miss, which is usually the bigger problem.
I don't know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.
Going to try again with my amd card at some point
AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.
That's fantastic news! Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I've abandoned Linux easily a half dozen times.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can't control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them:
Isn't best practice to install your system on a different partition than /home anyway? Back when I used Linux (and the experience was a bit like they described) I'd just nuke the system partition and reinstall if I fucked something up.