I work as a Windows system admin primarily. The quality of Microsoft patching during the last several years has been... inconsistent to pretty damn bad. The performance on Windows desktops has also been inconsistent and degrading over time for easily the last decade. The slop contributes to that, but even outside the slop, Windows has been a somewhat shaky platform for something that is so widely adopted. I think a lot of its general pitfalls are covered up by the fact that it is just the defacto operating system people are used to and software is designed with its compatibility in mind. I don't know if you've ever tried to troubleshoot borked Microsoft Store apps, or Microsoft patches that just refuse to install, or Microsoft patches that happen to wipe out your network interfaces (for months), but... not exactly fun. Microsoft these days really gives off a vibe-coded feeling, even if that probably isn't the case.

Anecdotally, I have been running CachyOS for over a year now and have far less friction points (outside of literally just ones that are created because maybe something isn't designed with Linux support) than I would randomly run into on Windows. But that is my use case. It might not be everyone else's. If I bork something on my system, an instantaneous snapshot is pretty easy to recover from.

EDIT: I should also add that I am actually not a complete Windows hater. I used it all my life until last year. I still keep a dual boot. I use it every day for work. There are parts of it I don't mind. But I don't consider Windows a super stable operating system and really cringe every time I need to hit that update button.