

Yes, they often do… implicitly.
Every time someone pretends that it’s a Linux problem that he had to look up and install a certain driver because it “wouldn’t work properly out-of-the-box” he is basically lying because guess what… Windows doesn’t work properly without the right (externally downloaded) driver, too. Or it required you to install the newest DirectX version for decades before you could even start any game… Yet somehow I never read complains about Windows being unfinished and needing to improve because you could not start gaming out-of-the-box.
In my opinion that’s the main point.
People love to discuss how Linux isn’t fit to replace Windows (yet) or how it needs to be more user friendly or how it needs to work better out-of-the box.
Yet in reality 90% of the users couldn’t install and properly set up either OS from scratch. But with Windows they simply don’t have to as it’s already pre-installed and set up. And so they somehow fool themselves into thinking one just runs automatically while the other needs additional work…