@Bubba: You ever think that the reason a distro may be "hard" is because it tries to be "easy"? I remember someone told me that a when I started out 2 years ago on Linux and I thought he was smoking something. After getting to really try Arch/Archbang I can tell you that there is something to it. Your problems with buntu, Fedora, SUSE may be because they try to do things for you that they can't because they're not as smart as you. This is one thing people complain about with Windows at times is when Windows does something they don't want it to. Why? Because in attempting to be user friendly it assumes you're too dumb to know what to do even if you had the choice. This is why I find Linux easier at times. It's all about balance bubba...Windows and OSX are moving further and further from allowing a user to be in control and helping them exert that control. This also allows them to do things without you knowing...say backtracks into Skype and your OS itself. So to answer your question...Linux can be so easy Grandma can use it if she's never been exposed to Windows and she has Linux on hardware that is known to work with Linux. It would be like throwing Grandma on a Hackintosh that was never setup right or even letting her be with windows. None of those scenarios will work out well. So is any easier? Is any better? Linux's problem is simply it's still too much from the view of a programmer for programmers. When you make man pages or hell a wiki that is not intimidating to people then you don't need to have "smart" programs that try and do everything for everyone (and likely fail/become bloated and slow) because then people will be able to do things on their own and probably understand and be better able to think about how to fix the next problem. Sure it sounds like it's not plug and play simple but it would solve a lot more problems and in the long run waste less time than people waiting around for some quick fix that fixes things fast but erases or complicates other things.
I need to stop writing on here since no one
agrees understands me.
@GermanyChris: Fedora would likely be worse for him. It's almost a "FOSS" only mentality which means if he's got a piece of hardware that's being problematic in buntu (likely because it's proprietary soundcard added on right?)...then it's likely going to be more difficult to work in Fedora. Again ask your questions in the Linux section and we'll help you if we can.
