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Is it? For most users, windows takes care of absolutely everything and if something lacks, just google, download and done, especially because most software is written for windows. With Defender they even removed need of antivirus for a normal user.
If something lacks on Linux, half the time you need to say hello to console. You also need to learn about software alternatives, because there's high probability that the default, well known option won't work.
To both of which most people will say no to from the very start.
Honestly software management on Windows is trash. Oh missing a feature? Go fuck yourself, maybe tweet them, they might listen (lmao). Oh you want to tweak something? You can with this 27 step process and it will revert back in the next update.
Honestly, there is something to experience on a given OS, but every time I'm stuck doing stuff on Windows I get slapped in the face with how fucking tedious it is do anything simple. Like to be update to date for games takes seriously 3 different installers, two of which you have to research and find yourself (game store and drivers app). That's what it is good at...
Hey, what you descibe is a power user. And that's valid, but power users also don't tend to have problems with linux, and they ain't anywhere close to majority of computer users. Also, to even download a game nowadays you need to have store installed so that's crossed out, and then game drivers are installed by the store so (or added to cd installer in ye olde times) so wtf you on about.
But again. You are power user. Linux is, IMO, better than Windows for power users because you can do whatever with it. Windows is, however, better for granny, weird office lady and that quite dense kid who, while wanting to use computers, cannot be bothered to learn anything more than where the web browser icon sits.
Drivers are for the hardware. Its a separate app on Windows I think AMD adrenaline and whatever Nvidia does is their driver manager otherwise it's another web hunt like most apps on Windows.
The biggest advantage for those groups was decades of ads and being the default. Trust me work IT for decades none of those groups are good with Windows, its arguably worse for them