@philip_cardella
A lot of the evangelizing for new Linux recruits is soaked in bad assumptions.
My experience with Windows for a very long time has been allowing the setup program that runs when you power up a new laptop to go on until update runs and checks for BIOS and firmware updates.
And, if I can do it directly from the BIOS setup, I don't bother with the Windows setup program.
Then, I install Linux.
So, if I was thrust headlong into Windows, I'd have no idea what was going,