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My 2¢ is that running Linux, you play the role of user and of sysadmin. On some distros you only put on the sysadmin hat once in a blue moon, but on others you're constantly wearing it.
My Arch experience is a few years out of date; I felt I played sysadmin more than, say, Debian Stable, but it wasn't too onerous. I also had an older Nvidia card, so there were some...fun issues now and then.
I use Debian on my machines now, and am happy. Try some different distributions! Even better, have
/home
on its own partition (better yet, own disk)changing distros can be nice and easy without worrying about your personal data.
I don't mind being the sysadmin of my own machine (I prefer it, in fact). It's just that I don't want to spend free time troubleshooting some obscure problem specific to my build because I chose an ASUS motherboard and I don't have drivers for my wireless headset or something. At least not when I'd rather unwind playing a game.