Linux does dependencies better than Windows.

[dos2unix]

This really isn't a knock against Windows. But rather a "that'a'boy" for Linux.
I had to install VirtualBox on Windows 11 today. Well first there is no Windows 11 repo per se that has VirtualBox in it.
Noproblemo, I go to the Oracle VirtualBox download site and download it. While I'm there I grab the extensions pack and the
guest additions iso as well. I click on Install.
Now it tells me I need the Microsoft C++ redistributable for Windows. So then I download the x64 version of this, and click install
again. It tells me I still need the C++ redistributable. I already installed it. It says I need to reboot. So I reboot.
I click on the VirtualBox install button again. It says I need the Python3 core installed. Again there is no Windows 11 repo to
download python3 from. No problem I go to the Python.org website and download that installer for x64 windows. I install pYthon 3.
I click on the VirtualBox installer again for the 4th time. It works.

Now all of this isn't really a big real, I got the whole thing done in less than 15 mins. But it does remind me... somethings are
easier in Linux.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

For same reason it is why Linux is better for development too, you don't need to compile various dependencies but simply install dev packages from distro's repo.
Although there is vcpkg, but I was not fan of it because it doesn't have everything and sometimes you still need to compile few libraries.
Also vcpkg doesn't download compiled libs but source code which is then auto compiled.