By this i mean, grandma checking her email and the IT pro with 10 NAS setup are the perfect linux users.
But us in the middle who pretend we’re smart…its a damn hard road. And then helping others to switch when youre not yet a pro is even harder, though a good learning experience.
Getting games to work perfectly, audio issues, Bluetooth issues, vr setups are far harder to do, running older obscure software, hooking up obscure hardware, using external drives, music production, these are some examples of things that will be extremely hard on linux vs windows for the majority of middle users.
However id say it is worth it if you like learning thousands of weird terms and phrases and putting in many hours of frustration to solve a problem. (Have you tried using floop to Docker the peeble?). It is very satisfying fixing an issue and figuring out why it happened!
Still, when im forced to use windows I see how bad its become, so im sticking with linux!
For multiple HDDs you shut look at a form of raid. ZFS and btrfs are great options for software raid.
ZFS != raid! better than raid actually.
I know ZFS is not the same as raid. but for most folk it services the same purpose. ZFS is a file system with raid like functionality hence i said for a software raid option it is good. meaning using RAIDZ and not hardware RAID. And yes ZFS can do so much more then raid which is amazing.