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The people responsible for developing Windows should never be allowed near any kind of critical infrastructure.
Building an OS to run on every conceivable hardware combination is quite different than building narrowly-focused, purpose-built code.
Linux users: It just works out of the box! OK, fine, you may have to twiddle with a load of text files (if you can find them), spend a few hours researching, stuff like that. But it just works!
Again, not comparable, but MS had stable hits with NT 4.0, 2000, XP and 7. I'd add 10 as well. No personal experience with 11, but none of my users complain. Unless you wanted a locked ecosystem like Mac, and that's fine if you do!, Windows rocks out.
If you want a purpose-built OS, Linux clearly rules the world.
I've done countless installs of both windows and Linux over 20 years. Windows seems to work, until it doesn't. Then it needs a refresh which they don't make easy. Linux installs, with about the same number of exceptions as windows "work out of the box" with no messing with anything. When you need refresh, you simply, back up, wipe the partition and start over.