> My goal here is to see how far I can get using Linux as my main OS without spending a ton of time futzing with it

> First challenge: My mouse buttons don’t work. [...] Not a major issue; I can get around fine with just the keyboard.

> Then I remember that my root partition is only 100GB. I reboot back into the Cachy live image and use the Parted utility to increase it to 1TB, then make a second btrfs partition in the remaining space.

I don't think the goal was achieved here. For most people it still takes some dedication and a lot of computer knowledge to switch successfully.

But I expect things to continue to improve now that Valve has solved the single major blocker for a large chunk of people, that being running their back catalog of games. It's an amazing gift to the community that we should all be very thankful for.