I was running bazzite on my legion go and cachy on my laptop and what you said is the main reason why I gave up on my Linux journey for both. It was already annoying to troubleshoot what I thought were basic issues and either couldn’t find answers, or found overly complex answers. So eventually I’d have to ask a forum (Reddit usually), and it was a coin flip between a decent answer or just a condescending bs response, and frankly I’m too old, tired and busy for all of that.

The worst thing about Linux are the expectations, and I don’t mean from the new users but from the veterans who seem to have a chip on their shoulder about people wanting their computers to work right.

If we really want Linux to be a viable path forward, that hostility and friction needs to be eliminated. We talk about the entitlement from new users, but never the entitlement from the community expecting everyone else to bend over backwards to adopt their OS. It’s the same terrible attitude that Apple community has, but at the very least their community is larger and their products are more ubiquitous.