When people were first using it they were coming from DOS or older machines. Many were using a mouse for the first time. It wasn’t simpler to them.

Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.

Whenever you do something that results in the death of another human there needs to be an investigation. From what I can tell no culpability has been found yet, but there is at least some evidence that this person was being held against their will.

However, lots of European countries treat violence like the US treats porn so this could easily be something similar to the pearl clutching that would happen here if somebody was asphyxiated during a BDSM livestream.

Anybody can download Windows images too. That doesn’t mean the OS is free.