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I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Linux.
One of the problems with that family of systems is hardware compatibility. Unfortunately if your hardware is not (proven) to be compatible with Linux, you will have problems. Sometimes those problems are of the "my system won't start" kind. Often, these will be hard to identify and fix.
Linux is not yet IMO a system for general use. Fixing problems can be long, tedious and require you to read a lot of docs. Yesterday I spent a few hours fixing my package manager, which was recently broken by a system update. Yay.
I have been using dual boots for years for that very same reason. I am a software developer and Linux makes a lot of sense for my work. But for videogames (and other software not supported on Linux), Windows is my platform of choice.
The question I would ask myself if I was you is: do you need Linux? If so, I would next check (before anything else) hardware compatibility with some distro that makes sense for you (one that comes shipped with good graphics drivers for example). There are a few distro that work reasonably well for some of those cases. If you don't need Linux (and you don't like tinkering with systems) then I would suggest reconsidering your choice of platform.
Anyway, I wish you all the best settling for a system that works for you and hopefully you can see a quick end to your frustrations.
Edit: typo
thank you for the detailed and reasonable response, ill keep this in mind
For some reason, I expected the second sentence to start with "As an AI language model..", no joke.