Shanmugha

Pft. The point being "aaah, I had some difficulty, oooh, Linux haaard". What a reasonable way to look at things (sarcasm)

Of course! That's what I have missed! Thanks, oh my teacher

Wrong. You can't possibly find what fits your needs until you know your needs

Edit: also, you are going to start with learning the differences between all cars when you need one. That's a sure way to get a good deal(sarcasm)

I'll add another voice to the choir: yes, something else is going on. Before you get a breakdown, do look for a good therapist and most importantly do take a look at what really matters to you. If you are not doing something that really matters to you (this need not necessarily be your job), depression will come

Boo-hoo, you dealt with something on Linux. Cry me a river

Well, actually no. I have more interesting things to do

And I will not answer, because have no wish to listen to your tantrums

Lol. No, you don't really get the very thing you pose to be teaching:

When switching to Android/iOS/ChromeOS/… people also aren’t expected to “learn” that OS.

Same way they aren't expected to learn Linux, same way any switch requires finding out how things are done and what works for you. I have no problem navigating yet another environment, and your stance is just bullshit pretense that switching to Linux is somehow more problematic than switching to anything else

The correct way is to use the share button in your notepad app

No, the share button never shows anything useful to me, while also showing a lot of crap like three identical sharing icons for Instagram. What the fuck is the difference, I care not - just don't use the feature at all

Again, power user. Most people don’t use keyboard shortcuts at all...

First: and I never see people copy-pasting by mouse. So now then, power users must suffer, is that it? Second: so, anything more complicated than "scroll and watch" is now power usage? Niice. So now remind me, how Linux is such a monstrous hard-to-learn beast in this case?

Again, power user. The search is exactly what you are supposed to use. The directory structure

Flash news: directory structure and settings UI are different things. Also, directories are for power users, so portable software (as in copy-this-directory-to-your-computer-and-run-this file) is for power users? Wow, I've been power user since Windows 98! So... do I need to suffer or is Linux such a complicated beast?

What you are doing is taking your pre-learned ways from one OS (probably Windows or Linux) and trying to use another OS as if it was that first one, while ignoring the much more intuitive ways to handle that new OS.

Exactly the point. Original poster (edit: another commenter, this is just one of the threads) just takes his learned ways, then looks at Linux where they don't work, and declares Linux is too hard because it needs to be learned. What a surprise, right?

For starters, how much it takes for thing A to be done - that's how high a price must be. So no such thing as "Sony (or was it some other company) just casually decided that games on this platform will cost more, because fuck you" or in your case: no such thing as lobbying drops down bill by 75% while also shifting resource providing (like water) to third parties

Next - visibility: whatever I get done for me, even if I do not pay exactly for that, I should still see the price. So no such thing as free requests to LLMs, which we know cost fuck ton of resources

Next - whatever I pay, even in taxes, I decide where that money goes. So no such thing as "income tax NN%, government decides to murder children half the globe (or just a country border) away, and you go work harder to make us more money to do exactly the same thing"

There also must be a heap of other problems I do not see, but I lack education and attention to get those on my own

oh, do we have something to disagree on. First things first: many "fucks" ahead

• that sleep mode that I rigorously disable the fuck off every time I re/install a system, right?

• file system, even without power usage: I install a notepad-like app on Android (think Sublime), create a file with notes on some topic, and want to send it via email to someone. Oops, where the fuck did that file go?

• keyboard is something I use daily, so now three (or more?) layers instead of two can be irritating. fair point would be that I never tried a Mac, so can't speak specifically about this case, but all those Ctrl+Alt+fuck-how-many-more-letters? shortcuts in some apps do drive me nuts (that extends to web apps too)

• let's add to this pile: fucking Android settings. Even with me being a software dev, I usually just go to Settings and use text search to find whatever setting I need at the moment, because it never is anywhere I look for it

"people also aren’t expected to learn that OS" my ass. people are just expected to put up with whatever bullshit these OSes come with. Works for some, does not work for others - but do you really want to be among fools glorifying this attitude?

Of course! I'll just magically re-learn keyboard usage on Mac and how its file system is structured, all automatically on purchase, right?

• find one that fits your needs
• learning the difference between all distros

Do I need to spell the error here?