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Suggestion: Try running a web UI/dashboard/front-end for managing docker containers on your NUC. That way, you wouldn't need a desktop through ssh.
Encouragement: Glad you're having fun and finding success!
Harassment: Linux wasn't awful 10 years ago; it just seemed that way because it's different from what you already know, and turning to random advice/tutorials the web is often a mistake because many of the people who write those things don't know it super well themselves. You'll get better results if you accept that it's a large field of knowledge, and invest the time to learn each component properly instead of cookbooking everything. (It's not all bad advice out there, though. For example, the Arch wiki is generally a good information source, even if you're not running Arch.)
Know what, I did see web front ends in the handy installer menu. I'll check it out.
And I should've specified. My experience was awful, not Linux in general. Though I was using mint and following a step by step guide and apt-get update just straight up failed and I quit.
My issue is that it seems so damn esoteric most of the time. Like at work, we have what I'll call an incidental Linux install. It's managed by another company, but response time is slow so I handle most of the low level troubleshooting. Someone locked out a user account. I was able to get on as admin, but the commands I found by googling (faillock, passwd -u, and pam_tally) did nothing. Turns out it was pam_tally2. I guess it feels like the skill curve to start is so insanely high. Like what I did with my nuc was dead simple but it still took all night. That said, it was fun and I will continue my exploration until I'm comfortable enough to jump ship from windows on my main pc.
What I recently learned is if 'pam_tally' doesn't work, writing it out and pressing tab multiple times will provide you with all possible commands.
So if you have 'pam_tally2' & 'pam_tally3' it will list those 2 for you.
Or just press tab and it will give you whatever command you have if it's the only one.
Two years of writing out all commands, files and filepaths by hand before a friend told me about tab.