I know that, but Linux is about community which means understanding others.
Windows is a mono culture and Windows-centric. Linux is multicultural. It is
also a divided house with so many distros each with its partisanship and the
whole split between GNU and Linux and Free software and Open Source. When
Windows users enter they need to know a bit about what they are getting into
or you can get spooked. Linux users unite in one thing. They are proud of
Linux and what it has accomplished which not seem like much to Windows users
who have 90% of the market, but Linux has no marketing branch, no
leadership, no software in boxes, no advertising budget. So when many long
time Linux users hear about Windows and comparisons it is like finger nails
on a chalkboard. So it was more like a heads up than an admonition .

The part about getting it to work I also get. I went through that stage.
There is a learning curve even with Windows. Windows users forget that they
once felt intimidated by Windows, even though MS has made things soft for
users re: security and administration. Windows users have paid a price by
having to add extras like AV, anti this and that which Linux users do not.
It is just taken for granted that Windows is easier and people forget and
forgive all Windows' flaws. I don't want to debate those here. I just want
to remind people (not just you but other readers) that we are speaking of
two different beasts and comparisons do not work.

Getting things to work in Linux is both easy and hard. It is easy when
things go right. Even easier than Windows. No drivers disks, etc. It is
harder when things do not work out because you are in an unfamiliar
environment and do not know where to look, are afraid to break things and
are being prompted for your password for anything serious which only makes
users more anxious. We've all been there. All I can say as you become
familiar with something what once seemed hard becomes easy.

Another aspect of Linux is also both good and bad. We have community support
which is good, but the amount of information, the variety and quality varies
greatly. That can be intimidating in the least and overwhelming at worst. It
scares some users away. Ask one question and you will get ten answers which
can be due to how you asked the question (your mistake) to how it was taken
(adviser's mistake) Then you will get a variety of solutions which can all
be right or none. You can get commandline help or GUI help. Nobody said it
would be easy. However, it is much easier than in the old days. ;)