Perry E. Metzger wrote:

Did I mention that DOS used to make you use EDLIN out of the box?

Did I mention that UNIX used to make you use ED out of the box?

that Unix is somehow harder to use than DOS.

Of course it isn't. Train somebody under BSD (say using csh/tcsh/zsh) and they are totally prepared to get to work under ksh/bash/sh under SVR4. The commands are the same and so are the options, on say things like ps. NOT. Unix commands are powerful and easy to use. For example, to kill a process I have to use "ps -aux" or "ps -ef" depending on which flavor of unix I'm running, note the process id, and do a "kill -9 id". Why can't I kill a job by name (i.e. I can do a "fg %emacs" but not a "kill %emacs".) Unix is filled with design abortions like this.

that X is harder to use than Windows

How about better Windows software is available?