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"Bullsh*t. Do you rewire your VCR everytime you want to record something off the TV and not just playback? Do you open your fridge's back port to change its temperature? Do you sacrifice a goat to change a channel on your TV?"

Actually I think both approachs are valid. The problem I see all too often in Windows is that the "fallback" approach of being able to go into easy to edit config files is not there and instead has been sent to the purgatory of "regedit" and its impossible to understand alien langauge.
I think for a long time Linux was the other extreme, too much reliance on hand edited config files while Windows has moved to nothing to configure and too much reliance on sometimes inflexible point and click wizards. Linux lately has been moving toward a nice middle ground where both are available.
I much prefer "wizards" first but if they can't succeed then having the config files accesible is a lifesaver.

Linux is not that hard to use. I came from Windows to Linux and the transition was no harder than when I started with Windows. In fact I would say that my experience with Dos and Windows helped a great deal in understanding Linux and its commands. Many were not all that different. For a brand new user to computers the newer Linux distributions are no harder to start with than any version of Windows. I can see that people who had a hard time learning Windows in the first place might have a hard time but those with the knack for understanding operating systems shouldn't have it too hard.
Could it get better? Of course! But then Windows has a LONG way to go before its perfectly user friendly as well. Everything improves with time.