GNU/Linux, once installed on a computer, is fairly easy to use. Or I should about the desktop enviroment - whether that one is easy to use. For most desktop enviroments, one can just press a button, and Libreoffice/firefox/whatever just opens. Installation is also a lot easier than windows. Assuming compatibility with free software, installing drivers is automatic. One can also install a user-friendly software center, which there are many of - Ubuntu software center is very easy to use, when I was a beginner I used that, now I mostly use the command line.

The hardest thing for a beginner, in my opinion, is installing software that isn't in the distributions repository - I once spent 2 hours trying to install a .deb file, and even longer trying to compile something.

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