On linux: I take a printer, plug it in, it gets autodiscovered and prints. On windows: I spend forever doing random shenanigans to get it working.

Same goes for hardware upgrades, bluetooth headphones, etc etc.

I dunno what you’re doing wrong. Maybe the distro? Any flavor of Ubuntu should work with most supported peripherals at zero effort. If it doesn’t, it means the device manufacturer never bothered with a driver for linux and you’re completely out of luck.