getting started with data factory

I'm going to try and post the adf part of this question at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-data-factory/ .  I think i'm getting confused amongst all the forums.  As far as i know i've always posted pbi questions to the same community forum (https://community.powerbi.com/ ) but they started getting redirected to the fabric community automatically at one point.  So naturally I started posting df questions here too.   All very very confusing.  Pls try to answer just the fabric part of this df question.  Something tells me all the problems i'm having with power automate ( https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/error-when-attempting-to-use-power-automate-in-desktop-to/m-p/3356874#M1118615 ), azure df, fabric df, pl300 exam prep labs that require a github command prompt instead of a button (documented but never answered satisfactorily at https://trainingsupport.microsoft.com/en-us/mcp/forum/mcp_exams-mcp_prep-mcp_mooc/while-taking-pl300-training-one-lab-isnt/1e5dc385-b024-4afe-818f-171f76c05131 ), unsolicited/billable 365 installs ( https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_other-msoffice_unknown-mso_subother/ms-installed-teams-exploratory-feature-without-my/c4b68785-d6e6-4a00-9912-1fe172991fc7 ) are all related but nobody really knows (or cares) what's going on and the consumer is stuck with nowhere to turn for what is probably one problem manifesting in multiple products.