Fair enough, sorry for the misunderstanding.

I’ve had the opposite experience with Windows audio though. It’s always been weird for me, randomly switching outputs for no reason, and I stopped even trying to connect wireless headphones because it would always seem to prioritize those, even when they’re turned off. Every 5 to 6 months I’d have to dig deep in the audio settings to fiddle with the gain on my mic so I’d stop blowing out my friends’ ears on discord.

I had a heck of a time finding a distro that would properly do 5.1 out of my integrated ASUS audio device

That’s not even close to a common use case though. Using that as an indicator of how user friendly Linux is is unfair.

Even the Nvidia graphics card sentiment is becoming outdated. There have been sizeable improvements in their drivers over the past couple years.