I use Ubuntu because of those reasons but also especially for the free
notion and have come to the conclusion that is one of the best of the
Linux stable.

I am the other way around, I see Linux as aping and playing catch up to
get way from the purist command line operation.

I love the idea of Synaptic and Update Manager for easy centralization
but still also like the ease of the exe. file install in windows.

I had an 83 year old who asked me to teach her how to use a computer.
She had seen someone playing solitaire and loved cards games. I said I
would be happy to help her out and hoped she would find some other uses
for the expensive hardware she had bought. She was soon corresponding
with family in Australia and receiving photos of grandchildren she had
never seen and then we installed a cam together and she never looked at
that card game again.

Yes Linux has it uses and so does Windows and all those new ideas
still to be born