Speaking from my experience, Windows never broke for me after updates. Install, reboot, done. I have actively used windows from XP to 10 with similar results.

Speaking from my experience, Windows never broke for me after updates. Install, reboot, done. I have actively used windows from XP to 10 with similar results. Linux, on the other hand, is a mess. Arch was mostly fine, I had to update an occasional config file after an update, but I had to update everything pretty often - once a month at least. At some point I stopped using my laptop with Arch on it for a while. A year passed, I needed to take a look at the old projects I had on that laptop. I booted it up, got my code, and out of curiosity decided to do a full system update. After reboot nothing, literally nothing worked - I could not log in to Gnome because apparently I was on Wayland now, I had no wifi or bluetooth, Firefox was rendering artifacts. I understand that Arch is an enthusiast distro, and that it was essentially my fault, but after this experience I have decided to stop using Linux on desktop and switched to Windows and Mac. A much better experience so far.