Set things up, and things seem to be OK. I'm only running a browser, and needed to try a paid windows program through Wine, which installed and loaded up without any real issues.

I go for a walk during lunch. Come back to the Linux login screen (expected, as I'd assume it locks like Windows). Log in... blank slate. All my work was closed, and it was like a fresh reboot. What the hell??? No error messages or anything. I literally have the browser and like a few other programs installed, so it's not like the system is a mess from years of bad software installations.

Sigh...

Then I try another paid Windows program used to convert video files. It seems to work, but it's not detecting my Intel graphics card. As I look for help on how to do this (officially, from my Laptop vendor), I get pages and pages of things to try... all through the terminal.

I mean, this is stuff that just works on Windows. No messing with stuff.

I really want Linux to be my daily driver, and even I type this from Ubuntu, I can't help but feel like something is going to catastrophically self-destruct at any moment, and that kind of anxiety is never felt while using Windows.

I couldn't imagine setting linux up for my wife, if this is the experience I'm having.