“deservedly” sounds like windows is inherently better… Which it definitely is not.

I have always had to do some level of tinkering on windows too, and it’s funny that people act like that’s only a thing on Linux. True if you buy a game that has had a chance to get the bugs worked out on windows it will probably work without much effort, but there are plenty of poorly architected games that will start to have issues after a couple of years. Windows is not a magic OS it’s just the most common