I started in 2008,I am no programmer, I can do nothing with software. Never used MacOS, only Windows. Usability wise it felt logical and I could get into it quickly. Of course some learned processes had to be broken with new workflows, but I did not mind that.

Since in Linux you're the master and nobody is holding your hand, you can (and will) fuck up quite few things and from that stemmed majority of my problems. It feels its quite too easy to uninstall your GUI.