I know exactly how you feel. Linux itself is possibly the most used software in the world, as well as being worked on by the most people. I tried Ubuntu in 2014 after I had just built a brand new custom gaming machine, I installed it on an old 2005 AMD Athlon64x2 and I was instantly hooked. Even though I had just built a brand new gaming computer, I was spending most of my time on that old dual core machine trying all sorts of things, setting up servers etc. Eventually I just started trying to find a replacement for everything I had used on Windows and was constantly surprised there was almost always a way.