Windows is a pain in the ass to work with but at least it warns me before i format the boot sector.
This really isn’t possible to do accidently with user focused distros. I have been using Linux Mint for about 14 years without issue. I suggest Linux Mint to everyone. One can install steam if you want to game, many games work seamlessly, also emulators, lutris, wine, etc.
I’ve never ran into an issue I couldn’t solve with google and a few minutes of following a tutorial. Also, Linux Mint has the best back-up tool, called timeshift. You let it create back-ups automatically, or do your own manual back-ups, and no matter what you do, you can easily revert back to that back-up with no consequences–Sometimes, if you really bork up your system, you’d need to boot from the USB drive to run timeshift to fix the computer, but again, very easy to google and execute.
I suggest downloading linux mint to a USB drive, and then running it from the USB drive for a bit to see what it is like. I prefer the cinammon desktop environment.
Windows is a pain in the ass to work with but at least it warns me before i format the boot sector.
Linux gang here. I have no idea what you’re talking about, but you make it sound pretty terrible, so glad I don’t have to worry about it.