I have not had to install a driver manually on Windows in a long time, probably approaching a decade. I will concede that Window's boot partition defaults are comically malicious to other boot managers on a system and personally temporarily unplug all drive besides the installation target.
All that being said this feels like a bit of a straw man seeing as your average user (which this entire sub-thread is discussing) does not even know their hardware can support multiple OSs at all, let alone simultaneously. They buy a computer and assume the OS it has at that time is all they can use, and if it somehow ends up in an un-bootable state that they need to bring it to GeekSquad...
Also to imply that the Linux app stores are at all better than the Windows one is a bit disingenuous. About 50% of the time that I have attempted to use them, I ended up with a broken and completely unusable installation of the program. There is some hilariously ambiguous error prompt that shows up and the real error is written out to some log file mentioning that the installation failed to do the system not using init.d or something about systemd. Oh and the log file is intended to be interacted with through terminal commands and is a pain to even find on disk.
> Also to imply that the Linux app stores are at all better than the Windows one is a bit disingenuous. About 50% of the time that I have attempted to use them, I ended up with a broken and completely unusable installation of the program.
The Windows store doesn't contain most of the software you want because they limited what license you could use, what technology you could use to build with, and want a huge cut leading to developers opting out.
Meanwhile major distros repos contain almost all the software you are liable to want with the rest easily added by configuring additional sources so you can use the same highly functional interface to manage all your software gui or cli. The experience you describe where half of installations resulted in broken software is highly suspect. Such tech has worked extremely well for decades. Problems outside of self inflicted wounds like manually screwing with the same set of files managed by your package managers or trying to install packages not built for your distro are rare. Your problems are virtually certainly the result of highly interesting choices which is like saying cars don't work because the last time you drove backwards on the interstate you kept crashing.
Logs are in /var/log like /var/log/apt not in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavoratory with a sign "beware the leopard" not sure why you would NEED a terminal for this task although its certainly handy. Instead you could read all the messages in your gui client and stop doing whatever its is you are trying to break your system.
Lastly init.d? Did you time travel from 2003? If so watch out for that Putin fellow he's a bad egg.
All that being said this feels like a bit of a straw man seeing as your average user (which this entire sub-thread is discussing) does not even know their hardware can support multiple OSs at all, let alone simultaneously. They buy a computer and assume the OS it has at that time is all they can use, and if it somehow ends up in an un-bootable state that they need to bring it to GeekSquad...
Also to imply that the Linux app stores are at all better than the Windows one is a bit disingenuous. About 50% of the time that I have attempted to use them, I ended up with a broken and completely unusable installation of the program. There is some hilariously ambiguous error prompt that shows up and the real error is written out to some log file mentioning that the installation failed to do the system not using init.d or something about systemd. Oh and the log file is intended to be interacted with through terminal commands and is a pain to even find on disk.