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I honestly can't tell if you are making an ironic joke
No joke at all. It's literally impossible to talk sense to anyone about how bad Windows is.
I've done tech support for 20+ years with the first half being Windows support exclusively and the second half being largely, but not entirely, Linux support. Windows support is much much harder than Linux. Most linux errors are verbose and can be searched to find a wealth of sources of possible fixes. MS errors are nonsensical and usually land you on only one or two other posts that if they don't work you're entirely screwed.
I can install Linux in about 15 minutes start to finish including all my commonly installed apps. Windows takes 45min minimum on a good day and if you already know which things are in the drivers DB and which things require third party downloads and installs (and where to get them). That's just OS and drivers. Software takes much much much longer from all the diverse third party sources. You could maybe cobble together some powershell or something that gets you like 90% of the way to the speed of installing Linux and software. But you're still going to have some stuff without the API access or CLI inputs that just can't be scripted.
Battery life and heat production running Linux is much better because it doesn't spend all your free cycles exfiltrating your data to MS so machines just run faster, smoother, cooler and with better battery life.
At no time do you have to pay for or worry about licenses just trying to install the damn OS. If I had a dime for every person I've known in my life running windows unlicensed with that sad black background and that persistent watermark I'd have enough money to afford a single windows home license ($139 Retail).
I could go on. But why when, as noted, no one is going to give it the time of day.
I couldn't have said it better than this.
I hate Windows for all my soul, and I must use Microsoft stuff at work, lucky me