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Maybe you don't mean this, but your comment comes across as a little condescending. You can be very intelligent and know nothing about computers. That is not necessarily a bad thing! I am a computer engineer and as such am often inundated with complaints from my fellow computer engineers about how dumb the average computer user is:

I'm convinced 80% on the internet don't know how to right click a hyperlink to open it in a new browser window. That they are constantly using the forward and backward buttons

they can't figure out how to use anti-virus software, they can't figure out how to use ad-aware programs, install a wireless network, etc. I look at it from the other direction: why have we as an industry failed to make interfaces intuitive and consistent enough for the average person to do these things?

Again I'm parroting an earlier post of mine, but evidently it needs repeating: why should there be this expectation of the end user?

Windows (wintel machines) has one expectation and Apple another. Is this such a bad thing?

MacOS X is very impressive in this sense. It has an intuitive and consistent interface,

Windows is supposed to be this too. My guess is the Apple GUI does it better

but you have the CLI for people who need more power so you don't give that up either.