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ELI5: Why is AC (current) accepted to be better than DC?

I'm currently studying Electrical Engineering and still haven't quite gotten a straight answer. Any ways of explaining/thinking about it would be great, thanks!

Edit: As a student studying Electrical Engineering, I'm going through my classes but it still feels as if I have very little practical knowledge. 

For example, when any individual is taught to code, they're given information piece by piece to learn and then implicate (output statements, arithmetic operators, for-loops, etc.). 

However, with electronics, I feel much less secure due to the fact that in the teaching process, I've spent several semesters now only analyzing circuits and not necessarily using any of it. To me, AC and DC feel like tools that I'll be expected to use down the road but are still very odd to me... Thanks for all of your replies!
gpt
It's easy to convert voltages using a transformer with AC. High voltages are very dangerous but they travel easier. So what the electric company does is convert the power to high voltage to distribute it from their plant to a city, then gradually convert it to lower voltages, and by the time it reaches our house, we have 110V. Which is still dangerous, mind you, but at least we don't have lightning coming out of our sockets.

There are some things that can run directly off AC (like specially constructed motors or light bulbs), but if you want to do something sophisticated with the power, like run a computer, it's converted to DC first. Here ^(*points at power brick of laptop computer*)