Yet the both the Run command in Windows and the command prompt are sometimes quicker or necessary. And the more your learn what you can do with Windows, including with the wealth of freeware, then the less attractive Linux is for me.
Yet i want Linux to be a more attractive alternative to Linux, but as one that like to tweak and customize, I find Linux less customizable, partly due to lack of comparable software or hardware support, or glitches and stability. Details at request.
My last attempt at making Linux my main OS failed due to find to find a successful way (despite many varied "try this" suggestions) to remap certain combo keys which i do thru AutoHotKey in Windows, though recently I found Debian enables the main two. Then there is the legal multitude codecs issue.
The usual complains about security in Windows has not been a reality for me, thanks be to God, only having received 2 viruses in over 15 years of heavy Internet usage daily, and having to sudo this and sudo that (unless I use Puppy) so i can do simply things like edit files it drawback.
She really doesn’t understand the File Manager
Using Ubuntu Tweak to set the location/address bar as the default may help, or use Dolphin to do so, plus i make Details and "show hidden files" the default.
Your post makes me think that on the whole, we have a rather personal relationship with our OS’s! I know I adore linux, hate windoze and macs - well I’m just not part of that cult.
It’s a relationship that is not just emotionally based (although that is a big part of it) but also intellectually based - we all know how to get stuff done in our OS of choice typically.
I have custom keyboard shortcuts in linux and such a thing is actually trivial to do. The codecs issue is more substantive and you do have to tweak those things but by and large I can watch and listen to what I want to on linux but as I said on another post I once spent a long time getting Pipelight to work (a linux alternative to Silverlight).
Ultimately we invest emotion, time and effort into our OS of choice and if we move to some other OS those investments most often have to be remade and that triggers all sorts of other emotions.
And it’s no use telling others - look you have to love MY OS - because they probably won’t and think you stupid.
That’s the world in which we live and operate.