Linux for end-users?

[classicdrogn]

... and naturally, no sooner do I post all of that than I get a mysterious error for no apparent reason, with the XFCE window manager failing to launch on a restart so there's no window buttons and no way to switch focus from the last-launched application. Fortunately, I RTFM before so I know the keyboard command to bring up a terminal (CTL+ALT+t) and after finding a similar forum thread I could tell it to start manually by just entering xfwm4, and now it's back to normal with no more explanation than I had to begin with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯