"I also downloaded Chrome, ran it. Turned off the computer. Came back the next day, and Chrome was gone, but the installer was still there and acting like it was installed, there was just no way to open it. I guess it could have been done in a command line, but i dont know." -stm1185
This comment shows off how mainstream Windows is. People just take it naturally that to install anything it's best to go open your browser, look for some download on the internet and install what you've downloaded. Somebody who's never used a computer in their life will find the Software Center far easier to use, but the procedure is just ingrained in people at this point.
The SC (Software Center) might not answer all of your questions as far as apps go and some things you will have to download. If you have to download something you're probably doing something specific or want something specific enough that you should know what you're doing. So for example VMPlayer won't be there - although VBox will be - but these things are rare. Obviously if you want to install some Windows program under wine you're probably going to have to google for a complicated procedure, but you have to be thankful to maybe be able to run something that is never supposed to work in the first place.
"Perhaps I wasn't clear in my last post, but I meant ripping off aesthetically, not functionally. Ubuntu 10.04 looks more like OSX than other Linux distros, and seriously, UTouch?" -firebee1991
You can't blame them really, if they're gonna rip something off, nothing better than OSX. If you want to try something different, try the gnome-shell. I tried some early alphas and it looked interesting but also quite a bit of an adjustment for me, but it was buggy at that point too. I'll be migrating to gnome-shell with 10.10.
"Its 2010, and if I have to go to a command line, then the OS is garbage." -stm1185
For the most part it's personal preference. I can do what I'm trying to do faster using CLI. You don't have to use aptitude from the command line, use the SC, but for me it's easier to find something I'm trying to find with apt-cache search | grep than browse the SC. In windows you hardly ever have options like this. And it's not just aptitude, there's a lot of things. I don't even know the procedure for looking for some text line in some code files under a specific folder in windows. You open up the windows search window and good luck trying to figure out what to put where. I'm sure they can do it, this is not a hard thing to do, but in an effort to not confuse their user base they try to hide advanced options and in the end things become convoluted. I always just end up installing cygwin on every windows machine because I feel far more comfortable in a shell.
Personally I migrated all my machines to Ubuntu except one which I use for games. It's about time companies started to support GNU operating system and making native clients though.
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