I don't use Windows very much, so I don't have a lot of recommendations, but here are a few. As another commenter said, Windows has its own way of doing things

I don't use Windows very much, so I don't have a lot of recommendations, but here are a few. As another commenter said, Windows has its own way of doing things and expecting it to act like Linux or MacOS will just frustrate you. My recommendation would be to, if you don't build the machine yourself, buy a Microsoft Signature PC. These don't come with all of the crapware that Windows machines tend to come with. If you decide to install the OS on an existing machine, make sure you find the appropriate network driver and save it on a USB stick first. This is probably the only driver you will actually need - once Windows can connect to the network it can download the drivers for everything else from Windows Update. Some Windows stuff doesn't work as well as the Mac and Linux equivalents, and vice-versa. The built-in MacOS VPN client and the NetworkManager StrongSwan CPN client are both a lot better (for me, anyway) than the one in Windows 10. On the flip side, accessing network files (through SMB, of course) is lightyears beyond the way Linux and Mac do it - UNC paths are at the top of my list of things I miss about Windows.