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I thought Mac was the viable option to Windows hegemony...
I'm a windows kid and even I know I should be ditching this piece of crap OS and moving to Mac sooner rather than later.
Linux has always suffered from one key problem: nerds. Linux is anti user friendly, because it's designed to cater to computer nerds who wish to show off and indulge in how clever they are, and protect their weak egos with a deliberately high-technical-barrier closed shop.
Go to any Linux forum and ask "how do you do simple change X". You get 2 types of responses:
1. Execute this bizarre page of word vomit in the terminal, in perfect order. But if you actually try to do that, it won't work. They'll then use words like "just" or "should" to pretend the solution is simple or the problem is your fault. "Oh in that case just do [second page of vomit]". Or "you shouldn't be using that" or "you should have already installed this".
2. Why would you want to do that? You shouldn't want to do that. Don't do that. These guys don't watch internet porn. They wack off to arbitrary dogmatic posts about things that aren't important.
Until someone comes along who can reign in these little wierdos and aspergers sufferers into being generally useful to society beyond keeping servers running, and find ways to better and more broadly monetize open source so it gets pressured into being reliable and user friendly, we're not going to see Linux challenge the big guys in the consumer space.
What you're saying simply isn't so, for most distributions. Whenever I've googled any question for an issue in Ubuntu, which is rare, the replies are always helpful. I have yet to see anyone chastising the person asking the question.
Linux Mint is a strong alternative for Windows, and an easy place to jump off. Very little command line interaction required, and if it is, you simply cut and paste.
I've had just as many issues on Windows as I have had on Linux, all things considered. Anybody that thinks Windows is user friendly is suffering from normalcy bias.
If you're trying to install Arch Linux as a noob, yeah you're gonna have a bad time. Any of the flavors of Ubuntu are going to be a cake walk and well within the realm of feasibility for anybody that has installed Windows.