For anyone interested in ditching Windows and going Linux. In my opinion, you wont regret it.
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My philosophy is simple: if the user has to fuck with the command line, the OS has already failed. If the user wants to and can, then sure, there's lots of stuff to play with, more power to you.
Typing in text commands is the equivalent of disassembling your car in your garage—if you're a mechanical hobbyist and enjoy spending your time that way that's great. But most of us just want to get in our car to drive somewhere and never think about it again. Linux never seems to reach that level of not being forced to eventually tinker with it.
Every five years or so I look at it anew, and once again am reminded that Linux is only free if my time is worth nothing. I'm not a hobbyist. I should probably check it out again, see what's changed.
Maybe you should look at Linux Mint. It's a well polished distro with lots of gui options. You likely won't need to open the terminal. Every year linux gets better and has less and less problems requiring terminal use.
Other very easy distros are pop os and elementary os.
I'm in the same boat. I want to give it a go and I want to get away from with windows but shouldn't have to deal with the command prompt to do anything. I can expect someone to flame this comment because I mentioned the precious command prompt by the same neckbeards who defend their distro as if its a religion.
I just want my OS to work. I don't want to have to work for my OS. I have Elementary OS on an old machine and it's pretty nice. I'm not ready to use it for my main system but it could do the work.