The way I see it, it looks like the fellow meant that, to figure out Linux OS, it will take quiet some time to figure it out and make it happened! More so versus installing MS windows mind you!
It is there fore safe to say that it take a whole lot more time and knowledge to install and run Linux than your regular Joe Six pack installing and running Windows OS!
No. Actually the poster in question is our resident troll who does nothing on this entire forum except try to dump on open source stuff. If you take the troll seriously, you'll get sucked into wasting hours of your time while he runs around in circles.
It is there fore safe to say that it take a whole lot more time and knowledge to install and run Linux than your regular Joe Six pack installing and running Windows OS!
That depends. If you'd never spent any serious amount of time with a computer, they'd probably be about the same these days. If you are used to doing things in the single-threaded manner that MS-Windows uses, you'll probably not use the full power of Linux immediately because you'd probably not be aware of how much there is there to make it look and work the way you want it to instead of the way someone else (like Microsoft) wants it to look and work.
Most of the basic GUI stuff are pretty easy for MS-Windows users to work with.
If you want to learn some of the more advanced stuff, you can spend a lot of time working with it, but that's entirely up to you. I installed FC4 on my mother in law's laptop, and it pretty much just works for her. OTOH, if you want to learn how to make sed, awk, and grep work their magic for you, yeah, it's not as simple as just turning the computer on.