With all due respect, you have absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about.
First of all, every damn time someone brings up the "you just have to double
click the installer on Windows" argument, they leave out the steps before that
(most prominently, locate and download a safe copy of said installer).
Second, I don't know what FUD you have been told about Linux on the desktop, but
contrary to what you assert about it, no, installing applications on almost all
widespread Linux distributions I can spontaneously think of - except Gentoo -
requires neither compiling nor messing around with dependencies.
Third, no, not everything on Ubuntu comes from the "Ubuntu store" or "Apitude
store" - in fact, neither of those exists. If you are talking about the Ubuntu
Software Center, that's basically just a fancy front-end for APT - as is
Aptitude. If I remember correctly, the UCS also allows purchasing of some
commercial software as of recently (I don't use Ubuntu).
In addition, Ubuntu (and derived distributions) have a thing called Personal
Package Archives, whose very concept is to make it possible to easily add your
own package sources to complement the official repositories. The UCS can handle
those, too.
Also, there's a very important distinction between a package repository as used
in many Linux distributions and a closed app store: the former is, at least to
an extent, managed by the community and the users. You cannot say that of the
latter.
And to add to that, installing a .deb or an .rpm (if that's the route the software is distributed, like with Chrome) is a one-click solution (the rough equivalent to an .msi).
And if someone wants to give you simply a precompiled binary, they can do that too. Though in Linux you need to set the executable flag on it so you don't shoot yourself in the foot like you so easily can with malicious .exe files.
First of all, every damn time someone brings up the "you just have to double click the installer on Windows" argument, they leave out the steps before that (most prominently, locate and download a safe copy of said installer).
Second, I don't know what FUD you have been told about Linux on the desktop, but contrary to what you assert about it, no, installing applications on almost all widespread Linux distributions I can spontaneously think of - except Gentoo - requires neither compiling nor messing around with dependencies.
Third, no, not everything on Ubuntu comes from the "Ubuntu store" or "Apitude store" - in fact, neither of those exists. If you are talking about the Ubuntu Software Center, that's basically just a fancy front-end for APT - as is Aptitude. If I remember correctly, the UCS also allows purchasing of some commercial software as of recently (I don't use Ubuntu).
In addition, Ubuntu (and derived distributions) have a thing called Personal Package Archives, whose very concept is to make it possible to easily add your own package sources to complement the official repositories. The UCS can handle those, too.
Also, there's a very important distinction between a package repository as used in many Linux distributions and a closed app store: the former is, at least to an extent, managed by the community and the users. You cannot say that of the latter.