Edit2: Honestly, I daily drove Fedora for years, didn't do a clean install from fedora 13 through 25 and it worked like a charm. I guess they improved wildly since your Redhat days!
Yeop, you can say that again. Can't read the Arch wiki on a Nokia 3310 for sure lol
Tbh I'm not too careful about updates, I have regular backups and grub exploding wasn't enough to stop me, so eeeeh, if something really goes awfully wrong I have enough free time to deal with it and use it as a learning experience. I know I should be smarter about them like you are, but on my personal computer I just cannot be asked. ^^
It's exactly the opposite for me. Why? Because I'm just not used to Windows and nothing is where I expect it, or works as I would expect, and a lot of it makes no sense to me. On the other hand, I've been daily driving Linux since 2010 and I know what to do for most of the things I want to change in my system.
It's literally just a matter of what you're used to. ¯(ツ)/¯
A LOT of people's PCs were bricked, including mine. No boot, just blank screen with blinking cursor. Thankfully Endeavour's team was quick to react (quicker than Arch, as it happens) and published a full tutorial on how to chroot into your system and downgrade grub, but that already required a good level of knowledge and confidence in the Linux system as none of this was trivial, or intuitive for any stretch of the imagination. I woudl imagine most affected EndeavourOS users who were new-ish to Linux threw the towel that day. Wouldn't blame them, it was jarring even for me, and it wasn't my first chroot.
I daily drive endeavour and love it to bits but let's not recommend it to someone who wants an OS with no fuss. It WILL break and require experience to fix. Remember the grub update fiasco?
No offense but this is highly anecdotal. When my Linux systems broke, I've always found good leads to solutions on the internet with a good search. On the other hand, every time Windows broke on me, it's been near impossible to find relevant information as everything is drowned in a sea of basic nonsense, and the built-in tools that were supposed to help me, e.g., revert the system to a previous state, either errored out or did nothing, leaving me only with reinstalling the whole system as an option.
Absolute nightmare.
I'll be honest, it was a struggle, especially with yarn this thin, and I almost gave up, but I'm glad I didn't! ^^
Also don't feel bad for failing to pick up crocheting, that happened to me too the first time. It was such a disaster that I didn't touch a crochet for about 25 years lol
It doesn't make sense if you think the heat is here to kill bacteria. However, heat helps detergents do their job, and most likely helps loosen biofilms given their composition.
Eyy friend, guess what! An update broke my EOS install again! Wish me luck lol
Edit: found brick mates: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/19bc9b8/plymouth_splash_screen_causing_black_screen_and/
Edit2: Honestly, I daily drove Fedora for years, didn't do a clean install from fedora 13 through 25 and it worked like a charm. I guess they improved wildly since your Redhat days!