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And your post lacks so much information it's misleading.
SOME Linux distros are easy to get working.
That's easy.
That's ALL that's easy.
The rest may very well be hell for you, and unless you love wasting your time compiling shit as a hobby, you won't like it. The second you want something out of the ordinary installed, you'll face the fact that Linux is so free, you just can't take an application and run it. You're given the source code (partly because of this, and partly because source code vs. binary is almost a matter of religion for long haired, tree hugging Linux fanboys; thou shalt compile thy code), and you have to waste your time compiling it, which often fails because your Lunix is different, so you have to go around correcting crap, linking files, downloading hordes of libraries (it's so free there's approximately a GAZILLION libraries for everything, and you end up having to install all of them if you want applications X, Y and Z working), seeing which goddamned version of glibc did it want (library versions = drama), and finding out why the fuck is it still failing.
For example, think you want to try image viewers (spoilers: there's nothing nearly as good as ACDSee 3.22 for Linux). If you didn't know ACDSee 3.22 is the best you can use, and you collected 10 image viewers for Windows and 10 for Linux, you'll spend an hour trying the Windows ones, and a dozen hours compiling and trying the Linux ones, assuming you can actually get all of them to work.