Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

[onpon4]

I can't comment on Mac OS X, but I think Trisquel is much more user-friendly  
than Windows. You just don't see it that way because you're used to Windows.  
:) Granted, the GNOME Flashback environment is a little more primitive; you  
might appreciate GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma, or Cinnamon, which are more modern.  
Trisquel doesn't use these by default because they can be slow on systems  
with unaccelerated graphics, e.g. anyone with an AMD/ATI GPU.

The terminal isn't required in Trisquel any more than in Windows. The same  
applies to most modern GNU/Linux distros that aren't aimed at power users.  
I'm not aware of any GUI interface we use which is any worse than Windows GUI  
interfaces. We just tend to use the terminal more because it works better for  
certain tasks than GUI interfaces, and it's almost always easier to give  
someone the instruction "enter this command in the terminal" than to tell  
them how to do it with the GUI interface.