Have you tried the new Mint with the cinnamon desktop yet? Full point and click GUI that looks, feels, and functions just like Win 7. And it comes boxed with a great bundle of GUI apps including updater, software manager, Synaptic , Etc. The normal average user would almost never have a need to use the command line.
The only time I actually “needed” to use the command line was when I did the slightly more advanced work to build my own VPN server and my VM environment. It’s pretty cool, A windows user can jump right in and fly from right out of the box. They did their homework on this and made it ready for strictly GUI users coming from windows and it very works well.
I have it on my media machine. But I’m in the command prompt for 4 hours a day. I write shell scripts for cron jobs and do quite a bit in vi.
I really like Linux as an OS but my games run in Windows. Our Java development VM’s are Ubuntu.