Linux has become as eye candy friendly and bloated as any other newer OS. While most sane distros included an installer app that works with specific packages, some pride themselves on having you do all the work to earn your geek credability.

Funny I had a working Fedora Core machine a while back that self destructed when it did an auto update as well (FC 3 or 4). I don't use linux because there are no compelling apps I need that are linux only.

I wonder how many of the OSX users on this forum even pay for their apps instead of pirating them.