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Linux Mint is pretty user friendly. I'm also not a fan of typing code, but so far the only thing I've HAD to use terminal for came with really easy instructions and the commands were listed out (like a recipe) so all I had to do was copy/paste and things worked out just fine.
The 1 issue I ran into was upgrading from LM 21.3 to 22. I had to go back to 21.3 because 22 couldn't connect to wifi (I'm guessing because my machine is old) but 21.3 works perfect. My other machine is a lot newer and just about to the end of its warranty period, so once that's up I plan to switch that one to Linux as well.