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Windows and Linux are both easy to use... Provided that everything works out of the box.
Once you have to actually start solving problems, Windows really starts to fall down because you have to spend ages looking through settings and perhaps installing tools like bcd editors. Like seriously, the number of places you can manage your microphone settings are insane.
At this point, I think the only people that say Windows is easier are those that have never had to reinstall it or who have been using it since the XP days and haven't realised that it is all learned knowledge.
I certainly think Linux tooling could be improved (a graphical fstab editor would be nice), but I struggle to see how troubleshooting in Windows is any easier than Linux.
Windows 7 was usable. The ten different places to hide settings started with 8 iirc. But I haven't used Windows in almost a decade, so I might be wrong.
They were transitioning to the new Metro look, that's why the 10 different places for the same setting.
And seeing how slowly Control Panel is being transitioned to the new Metro Settings app, I'd have to guess that that thing is so deeply intertwined in the OS and so many things rely on it, that moving to something new is painfully slow.