The OS is just way more transparent and communicative in a way that facilitates learning (once you learn the basics of how to communicate with it, such as not being terrified of the terminal)

I could not agree more. Linux is not perfect in any way, but at least it tells you what the problem is. Windows? Oh sure, you can probably get that information somehow, somewhere, in some event log that is only recorded if you sacrifice a chicken at midnight and dance around a campfire on one foot.