I think you both know exactly what I mean. Linux is most definetly NOT easy to install and set up UNLESS you know what you are doing. Obviously you both do know what you are doing as do I but to a novice Linux is not as easy to use or to set as Windows is. All the machines that I use, and I have four computers for various reasons, all take Windows without any faffing about looking for drivers. If I do not have the driver they will all go and look on the internet for drivers and automatically install those drivers. I haven't had a computer yet that hasn't found an ethernet driver on initial install of Windows. They are all fairly modern machines, apart from my netbook, and they just work after installing Windows. When I put Mint 17 on my netbook it did not find the wireless driver. I had to do the sudo apt-get stuff to put it on. That is "faffing" about.
I am glad that you both are knowledgeable enough to do this sort thing. I am also glad that I know how to do it but most people are not able to put drivers into Windows or Linux, on occasion, without "faffing." In windows it is relatively easy by just going to the device manufacturer's web site and downloading the Windows driver. Even now a lot of device manufacturer's do not support Linux.