I'm 35 years old married and 2 children, to give you context.

No IT background, windows user for life. Mainly gaming on my time, time to time followed guides to crack some stuff, but don't do it myself.

Decided to try cachyOS because my AMD system and tires of windows bullshit. It is not impossible to deal with, there are a lot of information to get workarounds, so it is fairly easy to get things fixed.

As a complete noob that does not understand different distros, the DE, file system etc, it was a huge headache to commit to one, always afraid to pick something that would brick my PC or just not the best option. Ended up going "default", cachyOS dual boot limine and brsft (I don't even know how to write it), with KDE plasma.

Installation is easy, very easy. No issues. These guides are everywhere. After that it is where the issues start to appear.

In windows, you understand the file hierarchy, each disk has it own, you start from c: or d: and build from there. In UNIX, fuck that. You start with / which is somehow named root(?) and from there you have dozens of folders with 3 letters, and you have no clue which does what and why is it there. I wanted to get 2 other disks mounted in cachyOS, it is nothing like windows, it mounts as a pen drive, to have it like a hard drive in windows, you need to do a lot of steps, and sometimes it just doesn't work, permission issues etc. cool thing is, you can just mount them as a regular folder, which I did, since I just wanted more space for steam library.

Setting up the desktop it is kind of funny, you get to discover the freedom, but it takes a lot of time, which is a conflict due to my context. I wish there were "themes" just like in windows, load it, then make changes. I still have A very basic desktop because I don't understand exactly how can I modify it, I get the install new and open a repository to get more options, but I see some desktops online that are pretty cool and I have no idea how to replicate.

Gaming: goverlay was a nice discovery, and also a fucking mess. It is quite limiting what you can do with it, optiscaler is what I wanted, then I tried to use reshade and it just doesn't work. The last option I don't think it works also. One issue I have: my keyboard is not 100%, I don't have insert button, and for some reason there are only 5 options to pick to start optiscaler and reshade. To remap, I have to go to each game folder and change it, but then I don't understand if/when I make changes to the optiscaler settings in goverlay if replaces what I have. Insane. I also wanted to try the fsr 4.1 on my 7900xtx and no tutorial works. I gave up.

I have been testing with crimson desert, there is a Linux issue with black artifacts, some hours to find the fix. There are a lot of commands you have to input in steam launch, there isnt a place where we can see how to do it, only some lost forum posts.

Also, why does Linux always uses weird names for everything? Packages? Nobody knows what they mean, random letters that somehow someone create and people know from mouth to mouth. The terminal, same thing, a mess. But that I dont mind much, I'm a noob in programming, I just copy paste what people tell me. But I think that people rely too much on terminal to do everything, even when dealing with noobs. For example, I had to change permissions on disks, had to change a file in etc/fstab (I guess). Everywhere the information is in terminal then bash. Fuck that, impossible to replicate. I understood what I had to do, I couldn't do it in terminal. I figured out I was editing a file, I just went to the file and changed it like a notepad, boom, done.

That it, Linux is too complicated but there are alternatives for noobs, and someone, please explain me the file hierarchy