My perspective is coming from dealing with reinstalling windows so I can play iracing and wrc this week, such a chore had to let it update all the way incorrectly after the wifi drivers wouldn’t manually install (had to use ethernet and let it install the same exact ones), then after it was finally done I could uninstall the wrong graphics driver that windows and ms store both try to download if wifi is on, so ofc need to download the correct graphics driver first, then go into safemode and use a third party app ddu to uninstall the graphics driver, boot up with wifi off, install the correct one, then install adrenalin for gui settings because its seperate from the driver now apparently, finally hours later use my windows pc.
Meanwhile in the last year i’ve tried 10 distros for fun and each took 30 minutes max with wifi and all drivers just working by default. All the steps were intuitive and extremely simple with graphics and explanations installing every distro. I just can’t imagine windows being less of a hassle unless you only buy something with windows and never reinstall it.