Hi Pleiadians, I often see your answers in this forum. You seem like a person who knows very much about PCs and technology so I will go straight to the point and not sugarcoat it, but also do some mental gymnastics and give you my opinion as to why it's not in the best interest to ask for opinions (see what I did there?) on such subjects.
If you ask 100 people you will get 110 answers and you will be back at square one but maybe more confused. This Linux is the best.. no, the other Linux is better and it never stops
Os by itself can be easy, or hard but also can be perceived as easy/hard depending on how well one knows about PCs, troubleshooting, and maybe some light coding (Linux needs a little bit of that) as well as one's goals. Some may want Linux to be used as a server others as a web OS and anything in between so everyone's opinion will most likely be subjective and not objective. The best advice I can give you is... make a partition (or a VM if that is an issue) and "jump in the water" That is the only way you will learn to swim.
Start with the "high level" Linuxes like Zorin, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Mint that are more user-friendly (especially finding software to start) and slowly start to swim. Check before installing on youtube and see which one interests you or as I say "clicks" with your personal taste. Try different distros till you find your match. Try to spend a day not switching to windows and find solutions to any possible problem, (most would be like finding a good music player, etc
) You will find that Linux is a LOT easier than you think. Before installing, make sure that, if you have any "exotic" hardware, it can work with the above OSes (google is your friend).
Now, my personal subjective opinion: I'm not sure why people care for the OS so much. In our lives, we don't really use the OS. The OS sits between the software we want to run and the hardware we have and is used mainly by the applications, and not from us directly, and we maybe use close to 1% or 2% of it. Most people will interact with OS only when it comes to file handling (creating folders, moving/copying files, etc), when we print things, trying to set up a new device/hardware, and maybe beautifying the OS (wallpapers, icons, blah blah). The only 3 groups I can think of that interact with OS at a deeper level are programmers and enthusiasts, IT/Deployment professionals, and maybe people that professionally sell/install/support PCs and OSes.
I mostly care about where my applications run and sadly the VAST majority of those apps I want and use, exist only in windows and there is no alternative (the first person who will say to use gimp as a photoshop alternative will get banned). I can see Linux as an OS for people that will use the PC for the internet only and maybe some light personal work like managing photos, some document editing, listening to music, and whatnot but that's it but you know what, Tablets do the same thing and so is Chrome OS (which is a Linux based after all). I did this with my mother's PCs and she has no issues using "Linux" but then again she never really does use Linux. OS boots straight to chrome and not even the desktop and I made a custom startup page with icons for her to use the PC like click here for your files, click here for the weather, and so on but I could have done this equally easily with a windows PC. I choose Zorin just as an experiment (poor mom), but it worked, which only showed me that people don't really care for OS.
Apologies for the wall of text, and I hope it helped.
