Nobody talks about the interregnum inherent to dual-boot

I’m stuck in it right now. There are niche utility apps I need for performing various tasks and I really don’t have the brainpower to learn and remember the terminal commands, so I am stuck being a low-T beta GUI user (the T stands for Terminal). Often I switch back to Windows and immediately I go ewwwwww but then switch back to Linux and realise that idk wtf I’m doing or how to do it, and I need to invest a good amount of time and energy learning how to use different programs just to achieve simple outcomes (that I can mostly do intuitively on Windows which leads to a sort of sunk-cost fallacy).

I really wish there was a hour or two YouTube tutorial that just ran through the Linux replacements for Windows features in a 1:1 sorta way. For example I was having trouble with certain apps’ stability and not having a native shortcut for the Linux task manager equivalent, or even knowing what it was called, was infinitely frustrating. I get that Linux is its own set of OSes and that it shouldn’t be expected to be a 1:1 replacement that mirrors Windows in every way but also it takes a while and it requires a bit of effort just to figure out basic things that are sorta essential which you don’t realise you need until you don’t have access to them.

I mean who’s gonna proactively research the task manager equivalent in Linux and create a custom keyboard shortcut for it just in case an app is fullscreen and it bugs out and stops responding but doesn’t allow you to switch away from it? Not a new user or a newly dual-booting person.

Personally I’ll be fine; I know enough and I have the determination to muddle my way through but there has been a couple of points where I’m like “Yep, this is exactly where people drop out and revert back to Windows.”

All of this is tangential to your post but since we’re airing grievances about transitioning to Linux I just wanted to vent my own frustrations.