Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.
Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.
Yeah the admin is from Ohio. He’s definitely a leftist but that doesn’t really mean much on the day to day running of the instance.