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I have like the exact opposite issue. I've used windows for most of my life but it's so so much harder to actually fix issues in windows compared to Linux
And for me, the big reason for this is because windows is a black box, Linux is not. You are always able to dig however deep you'd like in Linux compared to windows. Now, that might not be relevant for a layperson directly, but what it does mean is that someone else can understand the system component intimately and help you.
Meanwhile on windows the amount of "run this command that we auto-post to every issue report that doesn't work" I've seen is ridiculous, and it never solved the problem. And then I try to dig into how to actually solve it, and really struggle so much more.
Also, Microsoft just sucks as a company. Recently I've wanted to clone a windows installation to an external drive. Should work fine, right? I could easily get that to work for Linux, and any issue that popped up I could fix. So, tried to use clonezilla, didn't work. Ok fine, let me reinstall. Turns out Microsoft dropped support for windows on an external drive. Well that's garbage and dumb, as I've used this to my benefit in the past. But turns out, people say it still actually works, you just need to use a third party tool. Which doesn't inspire confidence, but whatever
And it did work in the end, but it took me many many hours of extra work of trying to figure out what the problem was, giving up, then looking for more information on alternate solutions, then finally finding something that worked, albeit with more work on my part
But if it was a Linux installation I'd have been finished in an hour probably, because I expect that cloning a drive would work without much issue there