I do this all the time, although admittedly not when speaking to others... It's useful for problem-solving if one gets stuck, a little while of no thinking clears the board and allows thoughts to again wander new paths. It's also useful for preventing headaches from muscle tension!

This is easy though. The amount of times I've kicked my toe into something on the way to the kitchen and ended up in 12th plane of torment is innumerable.

Is this how cyborgs are made?

The package managers are actually a huge upgrade, at least in my opinion. I was always annoyed having to hunt for the right site for the right installer, now I can just search and install with a command without even opening a browser. But the biggest benefit is the updating. One command to update everything is so handy, one command and all my applications and drivers are updated just like that. But there is the issue of many programs simply not supporting Linux. For those you'll sadly have to find replacements or workarounds.

If you want to get rid of Grub instead of what others have suggested, you could try booting into Windows and look for "advanced startup" and do a startup repair from there. That might destroy Grub and replace it with Windows bootloader again. If it works, your Linux stuff will remain on the drive, but Windows will boot like before. (you can easily reformat the HDD drive from Windows afterwards to use it for storage)

Some of my personal tips for moving to Linux:

1. It's not Windows. Don't expect things to work the same way. Trying to force Windows approach often leads to a lot of problems.
2. Watch Youtube videos about Linux. (terminal, package managers, desktop environments, distros, gaming, program replacements, whatever) This will help a ton to get a better grasp on why things work the way they do and what the benefits are.
3. Remember that in Linux you have a lot of options. Distro hopping can be useful early on to see different options/customizations. Then you can pick the things you like later.
4. Avoid graphical appstores. I've yet to have a positive experience with them. Terminal is much more reliable and simple.
5. Try out Arch Linux too, if you have the patience. It's not as difficult as people often make it seem, and installing it yourself is very educational compared to the easier automated installers. AUR for installing programs might also be to your liking more than how Debian based distros do things.
6. Learn how to troubleshoot yourself. Learn to search the web for solutions. If you're having an issue, it's likely someone else has had the same issue before.

My useless skill is being a RuneScape lore repository. There's very little that I don't know about that subject.

I do this to myself and then get disappointed 20min later.

"Nah, surely they wouldn't make it that obvious, that would be downright bad writing... More clues, they must be trying to lead me astray and then surprise me with a better twist! Oh, it really was just the obvious one... Hmm."

I was going to say I haven't had any issues, but then remembered I only sort by New and Top...

I think it's worth mentioning the amount of instances full of bots as well. I just started hosting my own instance and decided to check other instances' block lists to defederate from at least some bot instances. I now have about 50 blocked instances. (instances with 60k or so users each with no posts)

I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I'm still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using "you are" for a single person.

Pfft, rest of the world should start following Finns on this and call everyone and everything 'it'! Except pets for some reason.

I've actually never seen this format before and I must say I quite like it.

I tried setting up an instance for my personal use today out of curiosity. So far the most notable personal benefits have been much more responsive site and easier time curating what I seeon my feed. The latter is easy enough since my feed only includes posts from communities people on my instance have subscribed to... which is also quite a downside since I'm the only one on the instance...

Oh and I'm able to federate with whomever I want, compared to if I were on lemmy.world, I couldn't see posts from beehaw.org and vice versa. I'll also sleep soundly knowing that the stupid pictures I'll be uploading (too lazy to upload them on external site) won't be filling up someone else's precious servers.