So I recently decided to make the switch from Windows to Linux. I haven't used my personal PC in close to a year, but I had some need to use it again... But not if I had to use Windows 11... I know I know there's like cheats and stuff to still use Windows 10 and whatever. But honestly Microsoft was already pushing the envelope for me. So... After some research, I decided to give a crack at Linux Mint. Let me just say... The Windows to Mint transition has been so freaking easy. I'd recommend it to my grandma. In fact I'd recommend it to my grandma over Windows.

Well the story gets interesting. I decided that I want to learn more about ricing. How did people make their computers look like this?! There's an entire community around this?? Little did I know that those questions swirling my head opened the can of worms that cannot be closed back. I partitioned out my boot drive and am dual booting Linux Mint and Arch Linux now (I use Arch btw).

I just went through hell and back for about 3 hours trying to install Hyprland. I finally got it launched with kitty opening on login. But... That's it. This leads me to several questions that I'd like input from the community on:

• Where do I go from here? I have Hyprland, now how do I make it "my own?"
• What are some good resources for noobs trying to learn how to use a terminal? I have a small grasp on everything but I still don't know what all the flags and commands and everything do... I don't even know if they're called flags..? Or commands..?
• How would you explain what each "component" is in a Linux system? I'm still trying to wrap my head around what x11 and Wayland are... What a desktop environment is over a tiling window manager... If you can use those together or they're separate all together... It's hard!

I just request that any discussion isn't the typical "Don't use [xyz] it sucks" or "Just use [xyz]" because any advice I've directly looked for so far has just been that. And it's not helpful... Most YouTube videos are just as bad too because there's always a level of understanding that the viewer needs to have to understand that video! ChatGPT has helped me a good bit of the way so far, but damn it takes you around the world to get to a solution all while saying "This is totally normal, no need to panic" and "Here's why that happened" while continuing to send me spiraling.

Sorry for the rant. Just trying to get some decent direct feedback since I can't find too much noob friendly content! I know it's out there, I am just having a hard time finding what's right for me!