What you need to get your head around is that you are using a collection of individual programs and need to learn their behaviour.
In windows is the same, you have a program running your desktop and file manager (explorer.exe), another program that runs the control panel control.exe, another that runs a notepad (notepad.exe) you are so used to windows hiding all these details from you that you do not realise what is happening.
In Linux some environments are good enough that you can go by the same as in windows and not care what the underlying thing is doing, but in Linux helps to know you are running Thunar, Caja, Nemo or any other file manager because those are different programs and not everybody uses them.
What is good about understanding all of this is that you can put together your own collection of programs that you like.
You do not like eom to view images? Ok use Ristretto, or any other image viewer, you do not like Leafpad as a notepad? use SciTE, and so on.
If I can give you a single piece of advice, abandon the idea that Linux is a 1:1 replacement for windows and rather than think: "windows has this or that" think "how can I achieve X with Linux". And have patience, solve one issue at the time and if you discover an issue is many issues combined, solve each issue independently.
PalePimp
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2026-08-21 16:35:44 UTC
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