I ordered the Arduino, because I once again, as during a microprocessor-internship at the time of my studies in computer science, with a little hardware as here wants to mess around with a microprocessor. It is, provided a minimum level of programming skills, not so hard to do something with the Arduino. For the IDE environment for Arduino and the alternative Minibloq care.
Where I had my problems was that you need to set up a driver for the USB interface, so that the corresponding Arduino is detected. I do not feel as Malus, especially more senior systems, especially operating under DOS, still had major hurdles.