If you're playing an electric guitar and someone yells out, You Suck!, you can't hear them.

Any of you guys know any good easy songs on acoustic to check out and try?

Sound and technique. Acoustic guitars have a fixed sound because of the materials and construction of the guitar. Though you can vary the sound with steel vs nylon strings. Acoustic guitars tend to use heavier strings to the technique of playing it tends to involve less pitch bending, etc. Acoustics: classical, country, some rock and jazz. Electric guitars have a much more changeable sound. Because the pickups act like a microphone and you can heavily amplify and process the sound in any way you wish. Electrics vary in sound because of construction (solid body vs semi-hollow) and hardware (single coil vs humbucker/double coil pick ups. Solid body’s tend to sound brighter and have more sustain when amplified than semi hollows. Semihollows tend to have a much warmer tone, and are more “articulate” Solids: rock, metal, country. Semi-hollows: blues, jazz. Single coil pickups tend to have a brute, almost brittle sound. But the tolerate heavy overdrive/amplification poorly because the are very noisy at high volume levels. Dual coils/humbuckers were designed to cancel out this noise. So you can drive them to insane levels with little noise. But that comes at the cost of losing some of the high-end/treble in the sound/signal. Single coils: clean playing or low level overdrive Dual coils: distortion. Rock, metal, some more Rock oriented blues and jazz. Electric guitars tend to have lighter string. That and the heavy amplification and sound processing give the play associated with it that high energy feel. These days you can find almost any combination of all of these features in a guitar. In your first guitar, get something inexpensive as you try different things and figure out what look you like. What music you like to play, and what kind of sound you want to hear.

The biggest difference is sound, mostly. But that’s obvious. The most skilled guitar players can do everything on an acoustic that they can do on an electric, it’s just that the acoustic tends to be more challenging because the neck is legitimately wider, which helps the guitar lean itself more to chord progressions rather than busting out wild two-handed tapping solos. Give the song “More Than Words” by Extreme a listen. You’ll see what I mean.

Mostly just sound. Hammer ons are harder and pull offs are easier. Tapping is a nightmare. Can't use a whammy bar. Distortion just sounds wrong.