It’s clear you haven’t used linux.
Windows: open edge, go to google, type the package you want, scroll past ads, download random executable from internet, execute, click through wizard, open program.
Linux: open package manager, search package you want, click install, open program.
Linux is compatible with almost all windows software now, and windows is absolutely not more user friendly, it’s just what you’re used to.
It would be right now, but the first step of Embrace Extend Extinguish is that: Embrace. Opening up to threads now might be extremely detrimental to the fediverse in the future, in the same way as happened with XMPP.
Searxng is the maintained fork, fyi
A good actual reason is to preemptively kill any attempt at embrace, extend, extinguish. Meta is like a cancer. It won’t stop until it has taken all of our users and the fediverse collapses. It’s less gatekeeping and more keeping poison out of the system.
For a lot of distro’s you don’t need to use a terminal to install things if you aren’t comfortable with that. While I believe learning to use a commandline a little bit will always be beneficial, you really don’t havo to. Take a look at linux mint for example, which has a “store” for packages.