I so know what you mean here...'cept I have a 'computergenius' type for an older brother (multiple of them, actually) so I have a nice, shiny user interface I can use. Still, I've tried using a terminal, and found it *highly* frustrating.
And xboing rocks. Massively. As do all those lovely sadistic games that involve destroying Bill Gates and/or Windows computers. Anyone who had anything to do with the creation of 'Word' should be burned at the stake. Especially that damn anthropomorphized paperclip.