More impressive is the fact you can upgrade from Windows 1.0 all the way to the latest one.
I am not a fan of Windows but I found this to be impressive.
That's no longer true since Windows 11 went 64 bit only (with no in place upgrade path as 16->32 bit had). E.g. the linked video starts a clean slate at XP in order to switch to 64 bit from that point on.
Still damn impressive one can make it all the way to Windows 10 (32 bit), but equally crazy IMO the upgrade story finally ended with 11.
Windows 95 was really the one which made the story interesting (the important bridge between 16->32), so no help to those that preferred NT or other OSs at the time and wanted an excuse to bash it :p.
If you really want to buy something, there is https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ - they've been around for a long time, though personally i never used them since i prefer to build my own desktops.
I have owned an AMD APU that only had its 3D capabilities and hardware video decoding fully supported on the Windows drivers during a couple of years until reaching parity, OpenGL 3.3 instead of 4.1, and no VAAPI.
Thanks for the typical Linux forum answer, some things never change.
Other things however do change. It is pointless to make current decisions on the state of software and drivers from years - let alone decades - ago. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s AMD's OpenGL story on Linux was pathetic, if you really wanted any sort of decent OpenGL on Linux you had to use Nvidia.
Things are very different nowadays and i'm saying that as someone who used to buy Nvidia because of their better OpenGL drivers and especially their Linux support.
More or less every Ryzen motherboard is guaranteed to work (as is Intel, just they aren't bang for bucks)?
Meaning Worten, FNAC, Public, MediaMarkt, Saturn, Dixons, CoolBlue,...
I am no strange to UNIX, having started with Xenix in 1993, going through all major ones, and knowing Linux since Slackware 2.0, but I have better things to do in 2025 with my spare time than installing Linux distros.
Hence why I rather stick with VMWare Workstation, WSL, or cloud instances nowadays.
It's pretty straightforward to re-image Linux onto any common x86-64 or arm64 hardware, not sure why one would shy away from this - nowadays it's actually easier than installing Windows.
As long as hardware with GNU/Linux is something special not available on general stores, or when, only in the form of Raspberry PI kits for kids, adoption will stay as it is.
Anyway, the major distros nowadays aren't Slackware. They work from the box, sans Nvidia (but unless you need CUDA that's just a reason not to go with Nvidia) and maybe Broadcom's WiFi (the firmware is in "non-free" repos because of licensing). An installation wouldn't take more than ten minutes, of which eight minutes is just watching the load bar. Then, of course, if you hate GNOME3 as much as I do it will take a bit more - but preinstalled wouldn't save you here either.