I mean that only matters for people like us.

99.99% of the Windows user base doesn’t give the tiniest semblance of a shit about any of that. Hell I run Windows on my gaming pc still and have never had cause to do any of that.

I mean, you don’t HAVE to do any of that stuff in Windows, it’s just helps a bit.

I’m sure there are plenty of windows horror stories. But almost every Windows computer I’ve had in the last decade, both custom and OEM, has worked pretty well out of the box. And almost every Ubuntu computer I’ve had over the last decade has had problems that weren’t trivial to fix.

I like Linux, but when people compare these problems like they’re the same just are missing the point.