It is really not that much of an involved process. Reading a wiki page and downloading a few files from the first hit of a Google result is probably similar effort to setting up whatever potential product you have in mind.

It is really not that bad. Really the only problem is gcc. Clang/LLVM stuff works perfectly fine and if you really wanted you could use MSVC.

GNU/Linux, or as I've recently been taking to calling it, GNU plus Linux

GLaDOS doesn't seem too far away anymore... what a world we live in

The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.

Lol same

What the hell!? I started at 9 or something and I still can't write anything useful

If you regularly use both (I use workman on my ergo layout board at home and qwerty on my [school] laptop) I type roughly the same speed on both

Even emulated where my pc can run the game at upwards of 100fps at some points still drops to like 30 at Hyrule Castle

Sounds a lot like slot machines...

I've used Windows LTSC for a few years now and it is basically the exact opposite of what you are describing. No extra crap, just Windows. It never restarts randomly, and I've only had it have a restart update once.