It's just not user friendly.

It was my first experience with linux in 2003, going through some 80 page wiki to get things configured and built. Learning how to configure an fstab file.

Hostile as in everything requires following a multipage guide of commands and manual configuration that often didn't quite work. Also when I asked on the forum I was told they didn't want more users, but more skilled users (I was 12).

So not really mouse clicky, more that basic functionality takes enormous effort to get working and the community at the time wasn't great.