[[they are becoming a lot more user friendly but i hate the thought of needing to do command-line when something didn’t go as advertised...]]
I’ve been using one without havign doen any command line stuff for over 2 years now- I mostly use it for just internet and email- I dual boot- and anytime i need to do work like in photoshop or whatever, i boot into windows for that stuff- 90% of my computer time however is just cruising Internet, email card games that come with linux etc- so going to linux was a no brainer for me- you can be up and runnign very quickly without havign to do any command line stuff- download and burn linux to a CD and run it on the CD for awhile- that way you can still have your windows while you check it out- it’ll be a little slower off the CD but will give you a good idea of what linux is like-
It’s very easy these days- and form ost folks who mainly just do Internet and email, they will never have to do command line stuff- but folks that like to dig into os’es, or try lots of software etc- then yeahm you’d have to learn command lien stuff- and htere isn’t much on hte net to walk you through it either- and what is out htere is pretty techie nerd stuff- not easy to figure out
Thanks - used a dual boot configuration some years ago and it worked fine - I imagine that LINUX has also become a bit friendlier since then - had Mint recommended as one of the most user friendly versions.