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One time I used the store UI thing in Ubuntu to install a package and it made it so that every subsequent time I opened it it would just freeze. I couldn't figure out how to uninstall it via the command line because it had some kind of lock on it. After awhile I gave up and reinstalled windows.
Yeah that's another difference. When something breaks on Windows people will do anything to fix it, including reinstalling Windows or buying another machine.
When something goes wrong on Linux they decide Linux doesn't work and reinstall Windows.
I've had Windows installs slow down till they take 15 minutes to start. I once clicked the wrong button in Visual Studio and the computer became some kind of remote driver debugging target, permanently. Half the settings broke and every startup it would autologin as a debug user.
If anything like that happens on Linux it's proof Linux is too complicated, but on Windows it's just one of those things.
The difference is that, for Windows, a million other people have seen your problem most of the time, so there's usually some kind of support article that can point you in the right direction on how to fix your problem without having to dive into the docs.
Linux just doesn't have that luxury. If I were getting paid to solve the problem, sure, I'd probably have figured it out in a day or so as a Linux noob. But I'm not. My free time is limited. I don't need to know much about Windows because it works pretty much all the time (ymmv).