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I never do any of that. I'm sure a lot of non IT people don't either. At best they'd get an app to do specialised tasks for them. Sadly too many gatekeepers tell people considering Linux, they must use the command line. But I never use it. So that's clearly not true for normal users.
Those apps on Windows tend to be just wrappers around the commands, which suggests there is an opening for someone to come along and wrap commands on Linux that don't have any graphical wrappers. I personally wouldn't trust a random app from the web so I never used them on Windows, but on Linux those could be delivered through the official repositories and package manager.