I am generally frustrated with the state of Windows/Linux discourse and I just have a few things I want to jot down for the sake of structuring my thoughts somewhere. 1) Nobody seems to understand that the average Windows user is not a "beginner." A "beginner" is somebody who has not used a computer before. If you've spent the last decade of your life adapting your workflow for Windows, and you feel frustrated that a "beginner friendly" distro is "unintuitive," you need to stop and consider why that might be. Likewise, if your first recommendation to a Windows user is something that's "beginner friendly," consider reconsidering. 2) Windows is treated as a default, which gives people making the switch unrealistic expectations. For example, and maybe this is a contrarian take, but I don't think that typing "sudo apt install firefox" into a terminal, or opening a flatpak GUI and clicking "install" on firefox, is any less intuitive than finding an .msi/.exe online, running it, and navigating through a couple multiple choice options. It's weird that we treat one as "intuitive" and two as "strange." 3) Your preference is probably not objectively informed, and there's no reason to act like it is. This goes for Linux users too. Unless you're talking about release day Win8 or Omarchy, there's going to be people who love it and people who hate it, and they're probably both going to have good points. 4) No, the terminal is not necessary. Stop acting like it is, it's not 1998 anymore. The terminal is just as necessary on Linux as it is on Windows, it provides utility if you want it, but many modern distros allow for full access to most system utilities without it.
