I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc.
Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet).
Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.
Before switching to Linux I used to think: "Linux users really use the terminal to install apps?? So archaic". Now I can't be more grateful of being able to install everything from the terminal.
And all in one place, for nearly every app. No figuring out where app X hides its self updater or whether I need to use the help menu or just go straight to the webpage for a download.
I can't even bring myself to use the gui update tools on distros that have them. It just feels like doing anything with extra weight strapped on to every limb.
Opensuse and a couple other distros I tested can do this too right out of the notification panel which is thankfully easy enough for my parents and grandparents. I still end up using the "quake style terminal" most of the time and just flatpak through the notification sometimes.
I'm on Fedora Silverblue (via uBlue), get the best of both worlds which is quite nice - I run just update in a terminal and it updates the system image (and any rpm-ostree overrides), updates all Flatpaks, and then for all of my Distrobox containers it runs that distro's package manager update command.
Never got a chance to use Mint's update tool, and was only on Nobara for a couple of days, so its been nice to finally be able to experience a nice "all-in-one updater".
Almost every time I use Windows, i hit F12 to try and pull down Yakuake to do something quick, and I get annoyed every time. Now that i'm more comfortable with it, the terminal is just better for a lot of things.