No, it's much more complicated on Linux.

Very few normal user "I don't know how to do this" problems on Windows or OS X require sys admin level skills. These days most things you want to do either just work, or are discoverable just by poking around in menus and trying a few things. When something doesn't just work in Windows or OS X there's usually a GUI somewhere that solves it.

As soon as you hit a problem in Linux, it almost inevitably requires you to fire up a terminal and start editing config files, dealing with permissions, building from source. And half the time if you screw it up, you're left with an unusable system.

If you don't believe me, pick a distro, and start reading through the help forums for that distro, questions that involve normal user type problems like "I don't know how to share this folder on my network" or "audio doesn't work". As soon as a user has to open a terminal to do something, they've become a system admin.

For example, here's the instructions for backing up and restoring a hard drive (Keep in mind, this is 2014)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234758

Again, in 2014, here's the "fix" to keep your windows on the correct monitors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwJl3ohmmqc&feature=youtu.be

Or, "I can't browse a windows share on my home network"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1169149

Here's the instructions for "getting a list of software that's installed on my computer"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261366

How to install a scanner
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2166420

A fun drinking game you can play with Linux tutorials intended to solve normal user-level issues:

- count the steps until a terminal is open, drink that number of shots.

- for every sudo command, drink a shot

- every time a file has to be edited or redirected, drink a shot, pipes are two shots

- every time a permission has to be changed, drink a shot

- if the user has to run a script, drink a shot

- if the user has to apt-get (or equivalent) something that has a completely non-discoverable name that you just have to "know", drink two shots. If it's an apt-get for something with a guessable name, 1 shot.

- if the user has to concern themselves with overwriting files or making backups of something, drink a shot

- if the user has to compile something, drink a shot

- every time the user has to 'ps' or 'kill' a process, drink a shot

- if the problem is the result of the distro updating a library, drink two shots

- if the problem is the result of an arbitrary compatibility issue with something that has an incompehensible name (like pcmanfm), drink a shot, if the problem is because of a minor version difference, drink two shots

- if it's a problem that only exists on Linux because the rest of the world is ignoring it (like access to streaming media sites), drink 2 shots, if the solutions are complex and require multiple shots to get through (see all of the above), then don't work, drink 2 more shots

- for every page of follow up in the forum that's proposing the solution, drink a shot.

Here's an example of a simple game. An answer to the question of "how do I watch netflix in Ubuntu"

> why don't you just inst all netflix

> To install on Ubuntu / Mint -

> Start terminal
1 shot

> $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
1 shot for sudo, 2 shots for nondiscoverability

> $ sudo apt-get update
1 shot for sudo

> $ sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop
1 shot for sudo 1 shot for apt-get

> and then find the NetFlix Icon under Video click to install and you are done.
no shots, but why couldn't this just be done via a gui?

Total Damage: 7 shots of hard liquor. Congratulations, installing netflix has just made you an alcoholic.

Here's a 33 page discussion on installing the ePSXe playstation emulator. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=612021 Congratulations you've now died of alcohol poisoning.

The Windows version of this is

1) download the install file
2) unzip it
3) run the epsxe.exe file