There is a shoet way to say it: Inattentive type (type I), Hyperactive type (type H), and Combination type (type C)

I routinely describe myself as ADHD type C

There is a way to distinguish them ! There is Innatentive type, Hyperactive-impulsive type and Combined type

It looks like Linux got much friendlier as of lately, and requires much less figuring out, but ymmv and you can of course run into issues, unfortunately.

Nowadays we usually have the benefit of being connected to the internet from something other than the computer we're fiddling with, it was quite hard to troubleshoot modem issues when you need that modem to work for the internet connection.