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The Linux propaganda here got to me about 2 years ago and I switched to Linux mint. Pretty smooth sailing for day-to-day stuff. However, a few days ago I decided that I wanted to try modding fallout new vegas on my computer and that's been a pain in the ass (still trying to figure it out). The problem is that a lot of the default packages in the mint repositories are outdated and cause a lot of more recently updated programs to malfunction. So I've had to figure out how to get updated packages by using the terminal (first time I've needed to open terminal this entire time) and update them one by one, figuring out which new thing is breaking one by one until everything is working.
For that reason, I'd recommend going with a distro that doesn't have as much of a lag between updates if you're planning on doing anything like what I described. There's almost certainly ways to do what I'm trying to do that are less tedious/frustrating in mint, but I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, dont understand most of what I'm reading, and there just isn't much out there for my specific issues.
Despite my gripes, I'm still enjoying Linux more than windows. If something didn't work on windows, and it couldn't be solved with updating drivers or something similar, I'd just give up. Since everything is wide open in Linux, I know that the solution to my problems are achievable if I just do it right. Instead of being told no by my OS, I'm given a list of reasons why something isn't working, and then I can just go and fix it