Since you say you are a beginner and getting discouraged by having to deal with the tool chain for processing raw images, I suggest you don't for now. There is lots to learn, and some things will have to come before some others. Focus on what is fun and interesting at this point. Getting used to exposure, shutter speed versus f-stop versus depth of field tradeoffs, and just getting used to how to operate your camera are much better things to delve into right now.

However, I suggest you capture and just save raw files for now along with the JPGs. I don't know what your camera can do, but mine has a setting to store a NEF and JPG file for each picture. If yours can do that too, then definitely set it up that way. Ignore the NEF file for now except to archive it along with the JPG. Some time in the future you will be ready and interested in post-processing, and then the NEF files from your old pictures will be there. At the least you can experiment on them, but maybe there will be a few pictures you really like by that time, and you'll be glad you can go back to the "original" and make the final derived version with the tradeoffs you want, not what the camera picked for you.