Had a very similar experience, plus a few forced system recovery episodes, trying to set up a Ryzen 395+ mini PC. Not to mention the mess of driver installs, ha

Had a very similar experience, plus a few forced system recovery episodes, trying to set up a Ryzen 395+ mini PC. Not to mention the mess of driver installs, having three terminal apps (why is PS7 a separate app??), WSL woes, trying to install python and git. Even chocolatey, which is supposed to make your life easier, has an archaic install process from the 90s. The whole ecosystem is light years behind linux and mac, I cannot understand software engineers using windows. I am very ready to install linux on it.