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For my entire post-college adult life, everyone has always come to me to fix their computer problems. Doesn't matter if the OS is Unix, Linux, Windows or MacOS. The last versions of Windows I had installed on any of my computers was Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Which were mainstream back when I switched to Linux full time (no dual booting) on my computers.
These days, if someone asks for my computer help, and they are not family, the first thing I ask is if their computer runs Windows. If it does, then I tell them that I no longer have much knowledge about Windows and can't help them. I have more knowledge than the average Windows user regarding Windows, even though I don't use that OS, but I don't make that fact known outside of my family.
While I have no use for Windows myself, I am not knocking the OS for others. Most people who are not software programmers or sysadmins or some kind of computer professional associate "computer" with "Windows". Because that's the way their computer came from the store and they don't know anything different. I find it best not to try to convert anyone from Windows to a different OS, even if they would greatly benefit from the switch. It just doesn't work 99% of the time. They almost always end up saying "this doesn't work exactly like Windows", and then they fail. Trust me, it's best just to say "yep", and let them go back to the only thing they know.
Luckily, Windows does indeed work for most people. Yes, you have to deal with viruses and malware and updates and rebooting frequently and driver issues and having to throw a ridiculous amount of hardware at it to keep it running above a snails pace. But most people think that's the way things are supposed to be. No need to tell them any different, they wouldn't believe you anyway.
Sometimes you run into a program written only for Windows. Often times written by a programmer that knows nothing but Windows themselves. K4PC that we are talking about here is a perfect example. It was never intended or designed to run on Linux. Yet, it has been doing exactly that for many years. However, it appears that Amazon has recently done something different on their end to cause problems for the older versions of K4PC (my guess would be intentionally). I highly doubt that older versions of K4PC can no longer run on Linux. More likely, nobody cares enough to try and figure out what Amazon did and correct for it. I certainly don't.
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