My first experience with Linux was going to an event at my school for installing Linux (in the 2000s), I went there with a working windows xp netbook and left with a computer that wouldn't boot, because the install process somehow took hours and the person lending their USB drive needed it back. It was a while after that before I was willing to try again, but I was deterred by a variety and volume of some bullshit or other that took way too much time and attention to get things even half working, and all the gaslighting and excuses about it online (an OS doesn't not suck just because the reason it sucks can be blamed on a third party).

It's genuinely way better now though and is on all my computers, the shit Windows pulled was somehow even worse and made me more angry than all of that, everything generally just works now and if it doesn't it's much easier to figure out how to fix. Point being, for anyone in this situation, give it a few years, see how things go.