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Installing drivers on Linux is faaaaaar easier than on windows. Most of the time you don't have to do it and it's just in the kernel by default, with the only major exception being Nvidia GPUs (in which case just open your software centre and search Nvidia then press install) and some broadcomm WiFi adapters.
I spend far more time working out how to do something on windows than I do on Linux.
Like when something goes wrong and I get an error code like "E819664167" and I'm like what the fuck is that supposed to mean??? Then you look it up online and all you find is people saying "I dunno, maybe you just need to reinstall Windows".
Meanwhile in the extremely rare instance where something goes wrong on a Linux machine, the error message is typically very searchable or even immediately understandable, like "incorrect permissions to access [file]"