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Because that is not a common experience in the least bit. Windows 10/11, as far as general usage (Internet, media, games) works 99.95% well for those use cases. I haven't got a blue screen or had to reinstall an OS for like...idk 6 or 7 years now. You might not like the level of customization or data collection, but most folks don't care about that.
Meanwhile on Linux desktop (servers and infrastructure excluded) nerds (I use deprecatingly) get excited about idempotent updates so snap can't break their shit because fuck usability, or gpl god must be appeased.
As someone who uses Linux servers and software all day Windows gives them normal user a far far more stable experience on the desktop.
Yeah for real, trying to get people to switch by saying that windows crashes all the time/ has driver issues/ bricks hardware or software is just not the selling point people think it is because windows doesn't do that 99% of the time.
And does Linux ever do that? "wellllll yeah sometimes it can but only if you're using it wrong."
Linux community is like the dark souls of computers
A lot of older people I know only use their PC every few months and get frustrated by the involuntary updated.
It's managed to completely mess up my efi partition to the point where I had to boot from a live usb to be able to do anything... (after going less than a month without booting into windows)
Also note that blue screens are almost always bad drivers, which isn't a fault of Windows itself as the drivers are written by device manufacturers. It's like blaming a Linux distro for crashibg all the time when the issues are actually entirely caused by the closed-source Nvidia driver.
A lot of drivers should be provided by the os though, for instance the touchpad on my controller works fine as a mouse only on Linux... (I know it's a niche case but it's just an example)
There's two types of drivers shipped with OSes.
There's generic drivers, for example any USB keyboard or mouse can use a generic driver. That's usually developed by the OS developer, so for example Microsoft wrote a driver for this, there's a driver in the Linux kernel, etc.
The other type are drivers for specific hardware. On Linux, sometimes this is written by contributors, while other times the manufacturer itself writes the drivers (eg Intel wrote a lot of the kernel drivers for their hardware like CPUs, network cards, etc). On Windows, these are almost always written by the device manufacturers.
The generic drivers are usually very solid but have limited features since they have to work for a large range of devices. It's the manufacturer-written ones that tend to be buggy.