Do i need to live another life to make linux work?
No, but do bear in mind that switching to Linux will have a learning curve, and it sounds a bit like you’re expecting to be able to do everything you did on windows on linux without having to change your behaviour.
My advice is to start off with all the defaults of whatever distro you are using, and only installing packaged software for it, and just getting to a point where it is comfortable.
Most problems on linux (that I’ve found) either come from hardware being faulty ir unsupported, or that the user doesn’t understand how it works, but is trying to force it to work how they want it to. Both can be fixed with becoming more familiar with how Linux works.
This would also help you to understand why there are so many different distros (I do recommend distrowatch.com to quickly look up details about distros), as most differ in ways that require a bit of Linux knowledge to understand.
so tldr just stick with it and try and learn how it works meow :3
i love the lil tiny wolf in the top corner hehe