I finally cracked and installed Linux Mint on my mother's pc after failing to give her proper phone assistance in Windows 10. I was shocked how cluttered it is.

I finally cracked and installed Linux Mint on my mother's pc after failing to give her proper phone assistance in Windows 10. I was shocked how cluttered it is. For someone like my mother it's very confusing. Why do web searches show up in the menu? Everything seems to be full of confusing effects and the settings remind me of the metro UI, there's almost no options or else you have to follow one of the little links (choose the right one!). I think Microsoft secret plan must be to have everybody switch to Linux. I mean how hard can it to have a menu open, show a search bar and give proper results that you can easily scan visually?