I was telling a Mac user something, which I realised was profound:
Linux/BSD is easier to use than any Windows or Mac system, because the underlying software is simpler; the terminal seems more complicated to novices, but you can do on sh in 5 seconds what would take about a minute of clicking in a GUI.
With a unix shell, unix utilities, and especially a good C compiler, you can do 100% of things. The UI does 2%. And MacOS is unix too but in practise you don't use the terminal for most things.
The context is that I've been transitioning a Mac user over to Linux recently. But here's the twist: the UI in Debian's KDE Plasma desktop is also much easier to use than the Mac OS desktop interfaces.
E.g. Discover is great for Linux novices running KDE: https://apps.kde.org/discover/ - I've tested this with non-technical people and they can install software easily, without needing my help.
KDE Plasma is great. That's what I always advise Linux novices. Very intuitive, especially with Windows users.
@libreleah Considering Windows' UI has always been considered a poor design, that's scant praise for KDE. (It's also why I didn't choose KDE coming from OS/2.) #old
OTOH, I have never been a fan of the Apple UI as a power user, and it's seemed to have declined in ease of use over the years.
OS/2 and Windows were fairly easy to switch between, and I think KDE and Gnome are too. I haven't explored Mint or Puppy in a long time, but I think all the Linux distros are pretty user friendly now.
