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Any advanced user will face dozens of hoops a month on Linux
It's never the simple things, nor the very difficult things. It's small, niche workflows & use cases of your computer that you "sometimes" do, like, I don't know, editing a PDF, installing shareX or an equivalent that can take a screenshot and upload it to imgur / run OCR on a part of your screen, running a Space Engineers server for your friends, running SSEEdit.exe to dump the contents of a potion overhaul mod in Skyrim and calculate which are the best ingredients to plant in your Skyrim greenhouse and garden for maximizing gold output.
No need to look up ways to do any of those, I'll get different ones next week, and then more the week after.
You know, the millions of things that no one ever does except that guy in 2019 on StackExchange, but that you will have to do and then never again.
I face yearly hoops at most and I have supported many users, the vast majority of people have little to no trouble, and the cases you describe are either niche, one time setups, or bizarre things nearly nobody does.
I maintain that the vast majority of users will face fewer issues on linux than windows, these are all insanely edge cases.
It doesn't matter that they are one time setups, the question is how many one time setups will you have to do in a year, year over year?
Same for "insanly edge cases" (editing a pdf, lol), the question is how likely are you to encounter an edge in your daily life?
When there's a one-in-a-million chance to encounter a defect but there's millions of them, it just becomes likely.
Turns out the world is made of a lot of edges for some advanced users.
Editing a pdf works perfectly, yes edge cases occur, but by definition they are not the norm, and edge cases would be resolved by more people using it anyway, and I can still easily recommend it for most people.