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There are rather userfriendly distros like Fedora, Mint which out of the box are just as usable as any windows installation. The only reason i can think of why you might think linux is more complicated is because you have prior experience with windows and would need to re-learn how todo things. But i dont see any user without such notions to describe the linux experience as more complicated.
What issues are you talking about. Could you provide one or two examples?
because linux is currently undergoing a unification of software with flatpaks ... so the amount directly supported software is very quickly increasing like nothing before
Almost all distros have graphical software installers now ... so i can't really agree with you, sorry.
Every desktop main menu has a search function ... so finding stuff is as easy as never before.
I'd say meaningless is the wrong word ... i think you wanted to say "obvious" ... which i agree. It's just that some people seem to forget and i got into the habit of reminding them.
Still sounds to me like you might be mixing your preconceptions and maybe old experiences
I'd say its mostly because of clever marketing and having their stuff pre-installed and the average user not knowing about alternatives ... but i wont say that they didn't learn maintain a reasonable easy to use UI for their systems, especially since the insentive for profit is pretty high.
Now this sounds like you havent used any linux distro in a very long time ... but maybe i am just misunderstanding you and you are meaning something more specific, which i can't really make out, sorry.
Obviously you can do as you like, i just wanted to better understand your perspectiv on this matter. And i think i already have a better understanding but ... i think i am still missing some parts.
Thanks for the nice discussion so far.