It’s not terrible, it’s unfamiliar.

I for one find the mess of workarounds to make Windows tolerable very unintuitive. And scouring the web to find an installer for a program.

I learned young and became a power user of GNU/Linux. So I’m familiar with it. Way more than I am with Windows.

If people learn on Windows well into adulthood, then that’s what they’re going to be familiar with. The challenge is getting users to accept that things will work differently. It’s not a technical problem most of the time anymore, but a familiarity one.

I think if more people learned about the importance of software freedom (like being able to take a program to any programmer like a car to a mechanic, no nasty behaviour, etc) a lot more would at least try to familiarise themselves with it.