Yikes!

install guix

not OP but:
ready for normie use

the current state of linux is abysmal
- new user is immediately confronted with multiple distros
- each distro has different versions, different desktops, ecc...
- UX is not thought out, the user SHOULDN'T have to open a terminal
- user wants to install something ...... problems, lines to copy and paste, unexpected errors, ... just implement an installer fileformat call it "exec" for transitioners from windows

there isn't an official cross platform store that takes into consideration the most used distros
all this because there isn't a big company behind, that actually wants to impose itself, a decent platform needs good authority

>installs a bunch of shit
>bitches when the service host process is doing its job
you can do this dumb stuff that is trendy with retards nowadays, forcing it to only use one instance like you are on XP, just don't complain when something crashes and half of your OS goes down with it

user since he hid the user name tab

>don't have to open a terminal
And this is exactly why they are totally helpless and ask for help whenever some problem occurs.
GUI changes all the time, obsoleting all you've learned. It does not report all problems there are is pursuit of "usability".
Terminal commands stay stable for decades, learn once, use forever. Output is as verbose as you want.
>hurr-durr black rectangle scary

This is good. One service - one process. You can't imagine the pain in WinXP/Win7 when one service goes rogue and you have to guess which one of 100 services nested into single process acting up.

Install Mint.

Just upgrade to Windows 7

>You shouldn't need to open the terminal

WRONG, you should indeed know how your computer works. If you don't want to you're probably unironically better of with windows.

Still, most people can use Linux with a browser and auto updates just fine. I know 4 elderly that use mint with auto updates + auto dist upgrades. Only using the browser and email client. They never touched their terminal.

Nah, you retards will all do it wrong. I've seen you all do it wrong, every website tells you to do it wrong ("set it to your memory size plus a safety margin", hurr durr), and none of you have the brains to understand how it works.
So, as soon as you add memory (or even change a card so your memory map changes), you're back at square 1.
Non-tard tip: set it to 0xffffffff and forget about it.
Protip: don't do it at all - it was a hack for Windows 2000 to save RAM so it would run on 32MB machines.

>multipe distros and desktop environments etc.
This is why you just pick something for the new user so the burder of choice isn't on them.
I got my parents on Debian + KDE and they couldn't be happier. They find it easier and more pleasant to use than Windows.

>UX is not thought out, the user SHOULDN'T have to open a terminal
Ironically, it's the Windows UI/UX that's been going to hell over the last decade. Flat bullshit with no indication of what's clickable. Window titles in the window background colour so that in case of overlapping windows you have no idea where one window ends and the other begins. Dumbing down of the UI to the point it makes it unusable to anyone except toddlers. Removal of configuration options, necessitating registry hacks or terminal commands (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA).
Further removal of configuration options, to the point you can't even bring back the old task bar mode with the registry hacks that used to do work. Good luck trying to distinguish between different windows of the same application, they're now all hidden behind one single icon on the task bar with no text on it. Oh and that means extra work to task switch, of course.
Start menu? Messed up time and again, to the point they had to add a search feature to find shit in the start menu. And even that no longer works right - last time I typed "Teams" into it, the only result was some weird website, not the actual Microsoft Teams application. WTF.

>user SHOULDN'T have to open a terminal
Like I said, the irony is that Windows is the OS where you need the terminal now. Linux just works.

>user wants to install something ...... problems
Bullshit. Open Synaptic --> use the GUI to search for an application that does what you need --> select it, click Apply --> installs --> click OK --> done.
It's actually Windows that fucks it up. Good luck figuring out what that obscure MSI error means, or why your application no longer works after the latest Windows Update.