I know many people who are, e.g. with some in-house application in some company, able to do this kind of thing, by just having a paper with instructions and fol

I know many people who are, e.g. with some in-house application in some company, able to do this kind of thing, by just having a paper with instructions and following it step by step. I also know someone who is not good with computers at all, but has used DOS before using Windows. She could do just as much in DOS as in Windows, even thought DOS did involve the command line (and lots of word perfect). So if you simply have a printout saying what the command to install something in Linux is, and another printout saying what to click on in Windows to install something, I think that conceptually the Linux one will be slightly simpler. Same also with tech support! In Linux, tech support goes like this: "Please run this command and give me the output". "Now run that command" ok, problem fixed. In Windows it's "click here. do you see that now? Now click that. No, I mean THAT. Do you see a button at the bottom? Yes, that one! Click it. etc....". And finally, if we're gonna be talking to computers in the future, talking is more like a command line interface than a GUI, and despite that is more natural.