About the confusing distros that measn you preffer having Linux starter edition which doesn't allow you to change the wallpaper?
I agree that it lacks software, but it is not OS fault, I remeber ten years ago when people were asking big companies to create Linux drivers for their devices, right now IT IS HAPPENING, more hardware support is comming, but you must realize that in order to change the current market model it is necesary to change the way we think, easy enough, ask someone who has never tried Linux if he wold like to have it completly FREE, you'll notice that it is difficult for that person to grasp the concept and he thinks that it is not possible to be free and that he may be getting ripped off some how.
About the command line interface, well, that tells me A LOT of your experience with windows: Once I had a problem with a customer on windows 7, icons on his desktop simply would not refresh (creating or deleting icons), The solution? Edit a cryptic, hidden, obscure registry key that I would have never find if Google didn't exist (Bing didn't find the right anser).
So, stop this crap that Terminal commands are difficult when playing with the windows registry is like doing a brain surgery with a hammer and completly bllinded.