Since you are not telling me the issue I cant give you what might have went wrong. You might have learned from that.
One advice, nobody will like linux who painstakingly has to play catchup on the terminal on a pre-baked OS.
All the distros I ever cycled through, I always had issues with pre-baked systems. There are always these little things you expect that does not end up happening even if you sweat blood. Then you start looking and you find out that nobody ever had this and there is no documentation whatsoever.
The only antidote aganist that if you are in control and if it is documented. I only ever liked linux in the advanced form.
Worst in these thoughts is that you never see clearly in the thick of life, only in the blissful decadent moments when you smoke some cigarette or take who knows what that will make your chronic stomach pain worse in the long run.