Anyone that plays the guitar that says they never had problems with the F chord as a beginner is either lying to you, or lying to themselves.
The good news is that with time, it comes. There is no right way to play it for everyone. Standard way as they show you in the pictures, full barre, half barre. Everyone will figure it out.
If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. In the meantime if it is part of a song that you are working on there is no harm in using the Fmaj7 which will fit the song no problems. Here is the tab.
E---0---
B---1---
G---2---
D---3---
A---x---
E---x---
The open E on the top is the 7th of the F scale (F G A Bb C D E)
This chord differs from an F7 as in plain 7th chords the 7th scale tone is a flatted 7th (7b)
I know as beginners a lot of heads might be spinning but a little theory never hurts.