I use Fedora at home, support wife’s laptop with ubuntu and have 2 ubuntu boxen at work (running Gnome shell not unity).
So for me it’s linux all day every day.
But I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - it ain’t as easy as people would have you believe. I see the world through my wife’s eyes as she tries to grok ubuntu even after being on it for about a year. She still has trouble really “getting it”. And she absolutely refuses to have anything to do with the command line. She does “get” libreoffice, browsing, and running windoze inside of VirtualBox. That is - unless something unexpected happens or she needs to do something a bit out of the ordinary. She really doesn’t understand the File Manager (i.e. Nautilus). Just doesn’t get it. So if you’re a linux junkie (like me) sure it’s easy. In fact it’s easier than windoze. But if you’re not - it’s not.
Finally the idea of “trying it out” from a thumb drive - this has never made any sense to me. People say they do that but I think what they really do is get the windowing interface working, open a program or two and call it done. That’s not “living with” a system. In fact it’s the farthest thing from it.
I’m not trying to pee on anyone’s cornflakes, really I’m not, but I do think a reality check adds value.
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.