I have the opposite experience with Win support - my parents replaced their aging windows laptop with a new win10 one, and I had to spend the weekend trying to get their old printer and scanner working again, whereas it still works out of the box with the latest Ubuntu.
The main difference these days, once you got past the setup, is that as a non LTSB/LTSC user, Microsoft keeps inflicting damage onto you (e.g. in the form of reappearing Candy Crush) with no way for you to stop it without continuously actively fighting.
Some of us like 100% laptop support without speeding weekends tweaking them instead of being at the park with friends and family.
Even buying from Linux friendly hardware stores isn't always a success, as proven by my own Asus netbook.