Annoyance -- Linux requires one to become an instant systems administrator

  "Windows is a luxuriously appointed prison cell.  Linux is an
unassembled log cabin kit."  RB

  What I find most annoying about Linux is that it requires an
individual who wants to *use* Linux to immediately become a systems
administrator.  That is to say, there doesn't seem to be a
straightforward toehold from which one can begin *using* Linux without
first learning a variety of bewildering and complex CLI-based tools and
commands.  (Moreover, I'm mildly amused that many of the responses to
annoyances submitted to this forum are answered by extremely
administrator-intensive "solutions.")

  I'm luckier than most: I'd been a UNIX user (BSD 4.2) back in the mid
'80s and so had some idea what I was looking at.  I knew, for example,
what the vi editor was, what "man" did, how to use chmod, and so on.

  Even so, I today remain constantly annoyed by single-user Linux
system's overly complex file and program permissions administration. My
initial attempts to find a *straightforward* solution to the permissions
problem remain unsuccessful to the extent that after 8 months of using
Linux (RH8), I still almost always log on as root simply so I can use my
single-user system without constantly *administering* (there's that word
again) various file and program access permission levels.

  I'm no fan of Microsoft, believe me.  But that fact remains I was
able, without training or a third party book, able to quickly install
Windows and create a *user* account that didn't constantly confront me
with file and program access-level "error" messages.  In other words, I
didn't constantly have to type in an Administrator-cum-root level
password simply to use my computer.  I simply *can not* say that my
*user* experience with Linux was anywhere near as straightforward or
pleasant, at least initially.

Cheers,
Ricardo