voidf1sh, After a long day of technical issues and feeling like a failure, I decided to do something for me tonight :) I wanted to do something tech related that I felt had a high chance of success, or at least enjoyment leading up to failure.
So I decided to install #Manjaro tonight and I'm very pleased to say the install went swimmingly and I'm very excited to start using it more.
I no longer feel like a failure ^.^