Your inability to work with Linux distros does not make Linux distros walled gardens. Your argument would be equivalent to me claiming that the closed source n

Your inability to work with Linux distros does not make Linux distros walled gardens. Your argument would be equivalent to me claiming that the closed source nature of the average Windows software makes the software itself a walled garden. Except in the case of a Linux distro you are entirely free to modify it in any way you want. The fact that more things work out of the box without much effort and with a GUI on Windows does not make Linux distros walled gardens. And pretending that Windows allows you to install and uninstall things at will without any side effects is just naive and makes me wonder if you've ever actually used Windows that much. I've had more problems with broken windows installations due to incompatibilities between different versions of Microsoft development tools and frameworks than I have ever had dealing with issues with building and installing software on Linux distributions.