In theory having a database of configuration settings isn’t a horrible idea.

But the execution was terrible.

Honestly your situation is kind of a worst case scenario.

At this point Linux works really well if all you want to do is browse the web and play (single player) games.

It also works pretty well if you’re an expert who understands the system in and out and can comfortably edit any config file on their drive to achieve what they want.

But if you’re a Windows power user whose used to being able to set up all kinds of niche functionality its a rough experience when all of your knowledge is now suddenly useless and there’s a different set of things that are easy or hard to do.

Its actually kind of a similar experience going the other way. For example there are some things that Linux users are used to being able to script that can’t really be accomplished on Windows except via autohotkey, which from a Linux user’s perspective just seems incredibly dumb.

I haven’t had any problems on Linux Mint with a 3060 Ti aside from some artifacting when I try to do screen recordings (unless I disable flipping).

EDIT: I’ve had that GPU for about 2 years. I had a 1050 Ti for about 4 years before that.

Actually now that I think about it an update did break my graphics at one point, but that might’ve been partially my fault. I just reverted and reinstalled the same update right after though, and that worked just fine, so it wasn’t a huge deal.

Overall I would say its been more than 10 years since I’ve had an actual major graphics issue (having to open xorg.conf).