I’ve recently convinced my daughter to try Mint on her system. She has GF 1650 and it worked out of the box with propietary Nvidia driver (nothing needed to install additionally, with the option to switch to open source driver). Really, it’s not worse than on Windows.

As hard as plugging in a USB with OS and follow instructions.

The fact that people HAD to learn to use Windows, too. It’s just in the past and appears easy because they already can. If a person used computers with Linux from the start, it would be as easy for them as for Windows users.

Arch heretic here (long time Mint user).

At least with OS you have a choice.

I would describe a framework as something that you embed your logic into, letting it orchestrate the flow for you. You can use several frameworks in one project.