I am a windows user and have always been but recently i thought to give linux a try specially after windows 11 24h2 bugs. I am not an expert in cmd or terminal, however i can just read tutotrials and follow it if need some task to be done. I also had tried ubuntu before in a VM. But didn't go any further than installing and using a bit.
This time i installed ubuntu in VM, and started learning things. I learned apt and tried understanding packages and stuff. Then just searched for most beautiful distro and found manjaro but then i found out it is arch based and not apt too. I liked KDE more than gnome so i tried kubuntu but then found that it doesn't have latest KDE.
So, long story short, i found linux to be extremely complicated and granular for a newbie. It's a huge list of things to learn. A few things which i found strange and couldn't understand were, why the logical partitions (on a separate disk in same machine) don't show in file manager by default, why i have to find them from deep down folders and mount them? Same way the shared folders can't be accessed because latest version of vmware workstation removed vmware tools and instead now have to use open vm tools which for now only works with apt. The whole things is so much complicated that i have almost given up on linux (at least for now) and decided to stick to windows.
Even if i stick to kubuntu and explore stuff and learn things gradually. Even then there are a lot of things to learn.
One more thing, the online community is so granular. If i search for something online, there is not one answer to a question. There are thousands of them. For example, i searched fedora vs kubuntu for beginners and half of population supports fedora and almost half are with kubuntu. Their answers are based on their experiences and everyone has a different voice. The online communities are so dispersed and confusing that finding answer becomes a pain in the back. Every solution which is given, has an opposite voice in the next comment against it. For example if someone prefers kde, then there are people claiming that kde breaks soon with new updates and gnome is stable. In short, its extremely complicated to begin with.
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