Right.
That is why I chose that word.
Except that its command-line / help really is more difficult. At the very basic end of things you can get to the help-system in VMS (or even DOS) with help — this is vastly easier than having to know/guess that the word you're looking for is manual, shortened to man
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The help-systems are also quite different, the old DOS help is much better than man simply due to being self-hyperlinked and allowing navigation (mouse or keyboard) to related articles.
In that sense I'm confident in saying that linux is more difficult to get started on than old MS-DOS.
OK—I can accept that point. But how many beginning users will be using the command line and not the GUI?
Plain old “info” might get somebody started, and the other tool that is useful is “apropos” also known as “whatis.” It narrows down and gives precise man page names.