Whenever somebody tells me that Windows is much easier to use than Linux, I explain to them that Linux is also quite easy to use (today), even "out of the box", if you accept the same restrictions that you do with newer versions of Windows.
If you pay money for a commercial distribution with support (still cheaper than Windows, and you get all those programming languages!), use an up-to-date processor, and only use hardware that have drivers in your distro, Linux GUIs are very easy to use. The difference is that open source distros let you take other options. I can refuse to run any program that doesn't show up on my Gnome menu, but I can download and port other people's software as well. I take an additional risk if I do so, but commercial closed-source software doesn't give me the option in the first place.
Telling people that they have to trust their fate to text they can never see isn't commercialism--it's shamanism! --Ben Jones http://www.math.unm.edu/~benjones/
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If you pay money for a commercial distribution with support (still cheaper than Windows, and you get all those programming languages!), use an up-to-date processor, and only use hardware that have drivers in your distro, Linux GUIs are very easy to use. The difference is that open source distros let you take other options. I can refuse to run any program that doesn't show up on my Gnome menu, but I can download and port other people's software as well. I take an additional risk if I do so, but commercial closed-source software doesn't give me the option in the first place.
Telling people that they have to trust their fate to text they can never see isn't commercialism--it's shamanism! --Ben Jones http://www.math.unm.edu/~benjones/