It doesn’t match my personal experience, but I won’t go as far as to say it isn’t true. Even someone very experienced with a substance can have a bad trip, even if they’re familiar with the same dose. Sometimes your brain interprets what’s happening as really cool and interesting. Other times it might interpret those same events as terrifying.

Yes, but I only learned to turn them off after jumping off the ledge. Kind of annoying to happen in the first two minutes of the game.

Linux expects you to know what the fuck you’re doing.

I’ve heard people claim Mint is easy enough for non technical users (grandma, etc.), but I think that’s with the caveat that they will have someone to support the machine.