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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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It's not that Linux is hard, it's that people are used to other stuff and have very little interest in learning something new for no good reason.
Unless you really convince someone that there is a good reason to put in the work, how little it may be, to get used to something new, they won't do it and complain.
Meanwhile, Windows changes its whole-ass UI (possibly a slight exaggeration but it's enough that they complain every time) every time a new version's out yet somehow "something new" doesn't apply, all of the software people would actually be using is just the same anyway, and the removed/forced "features" don't count as "good reasons." Bleh.