Really starting to hate Linux

Ubuntu is alot like Windows 3.1, except Windows 3.1 pretty much did what you wanted it to when it wasn’t crashing.
Ubuntu doesn’t crash, but it doesn’t do anything. I admit I’m using really old hardware, but I’ve spent a whole damn night just trying to install Java Runtime. I messed around with all these sudo apt-get commands and edited my stupid etc/apt/sources.list, but I still can’t download squat.
I found a promising lead that says some people can use Firefox to connect to their wireless internet but the add/remove software app doesn’t work. So I edited my stupid etc/somethingorother.conf, but that didn’t work either.
And Linux is better than Windows why?