Yea, OK. I was a Red Hat apologist and kept using Fedora for a while but after this sadly I think it's time to go back to Debian. Thank God I didn't install Fedora on my new server which I was going to set up next weekend.
I totally agree that can happen. My first experience with Linux was installing Slackware from a CD I got with a magazine at 16. Install worked but I couldn't really do much with it with no internet connection so abandoned it. Also I hosed the Windows partition when trying to set up dual boot so got banned from the family PC for a while.
My Aunt bought a new laptop to run her eBay/Facebook selling business on. She's not particularly techy but has used Windows machines for admin work for prob 20 years or so.
Laptop had no office apps installed and she tracks everything in a spreadsheet. Original plan was to install Libreoffice but it was running some budget version of Windows 10 you can't install anything on, can't remember what it's called. So I installed Fedora.
Chromium and Libreoffice Calc open on login, her ancient HP printer works, she's able to access her camera as USB mass storage when she lists items and unattended upgrades are enabled.
That was 2 years ago, no problems since.
That look says a million things, none of them are "Howdy". Most of them involve claws on human flesh. Absolutely beautiful cat though