First off, I like your site...it looks like you built it with Django which DOES totally rock.
I hear you man, Linux can be an OVERWHELMING confusing pain in the ass just to install something as simple as a video driver for God's sake. sudo this, apt that....plus a bunch of other stuff NO ONE understands but of course they pretend like they do.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who has wasted so much time tinkering around with bullshit hardware\software only to find that you know for all the bad shit about Windows you can just install the OS and it'll pretty much instinctively do everything you want without a bunch of grief and heartache.