Ok, but now we're changing the context, and we're back to my original point: Making Windows work for you is possible, and roughly as hard as making the switch to Linux.

But complaining that power-user functioanlity isn't easy is just... asinine. If you understand the underlying design, it becomes awfully obvious that Microsoft is far more lazy than malicious. Same end result, but it helps make the entire process of using and configuring Windows make a lot more sense.

Yeah, Linux is obviously the better choice long term. But "fixing" Windows isn't impossible, and switiching to Linux isn't a "it just works" experience. Simple shit like HDR support still isn't as plug and play as it "should" be.

So seeing people wrongly claim that doing certain things with Windows is literally impossible while they talk about dealing with similarly complex shit in Linux is frustrating. If you can do X in Linux, you are more than capable of doing Y in Windows.

You're not wrong. It shouldn't be necessary to tell Microsoft to fuck off at all. It's not an unreasonable desire to want Microsoft to fuck off with their anti-consumer bullshit.

All I'm saying is that the skills needed to make Windows work for you are roughly equivalent in difficulty to getting Linux to work for you.

Both take work, and knowledge about the underlying design to do properly. The asinine "hot takes" from both sides are largely fuelled by people spouting off without the background knowledge to understand why things are designed how they are.