If you try again, follow a dual-boot guide for your distro. Also, make your root and home partitions separate, so if you run into issues, you can reset safely.
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Tell me your parents were upset at you when you were eight, for dismantling appliances, without telling me your parents were upset at you when you were eight, for dismantling appliances
ArchWiki is my first point of contact after experiencing an issue. Its an amazing resource.
I'm surprised Windows default troubleshooting solution has been to employee people who spend their time answering questions on forums, often just copy/pasting answers which often don't apply to the question being asked.
Skill issue.
Kidding lol. It sounds like you just picked a bad distro. I run EndeavourOS and I can make 1 character pins if I want.
Practically everything besides computers run on Linux.
Can non-techies use android phones? Absolutely! They run on Android, which is just modified Linux.
There are idiot-proof distros out there, less intimidating than Windows or iOS.
I dualboot both.
Windows for games with anti-cheat.
Linux for everything else. EndeavourOS is my darling.
Bootloaders don't interact with the UEFI, the UEFI interacts with the bootloader.
Sounds like you just used a bad one. systemd-boot is superb, it autodetects all kernals and shows an option to access the UEFI.
Windows however, assumes it owns your boot partition, so likes to delete Linux bootloaders if installed last.
This is very easily mitigatable.
Set your root and home partitions seperately. Keep a text file of all the applications you install (preferably as a script).
When you break it, reinstall the OS, and relink the home partition. Run the script to reinstall your applications. Done.
Certainly takes less time than reinstalling Windows or even asking it to fix itself.
If you need adobe, fair enough.
With Steam's Proton, you can play games made for Windows. The only games which certainly won't work are ones which require anti-cheat.
AMD or NVIDIA? Also how long ago?
I found most prograns I need run on wine, you just need to use the right settings. Playonlinux and Lutris are useful for applications, not just games.
Just like my basement, and secret basement.
I spent three days installing Arch from scratch. After I got it working, I wiped everything and did it again and again, I wrote 2 simple script to automate the process, and after I was done, I wiped everything and installed Manjaro lol.
It's a good learning experience, I recommend every new Linux user do it in a sandbox at least once.