HDM and dos taught me some early basic concepts of computer operations. Later when I got into linux and openbsd and started reading the rute book I became even more comfortable in dealing with how things worked on a computer and has made me a better windows user (and most likely a louder complainer when trapped in a microsoftism). When some oddball windows issue arises I can whip out perl or even a batch file to band-aid it to get me by. If its some real low level windows issue then at least google frequently has some good ideas because the homogeny of the userbase means its likely someone else has already encountered and overcome the same thing. One of the problems with linuxy systems that windows is actually pretty good at duplicating is distro-to-distro issues. Windows 98 to nt to Xp to vista to 2003 to 7 and 2008 to whatever is nearly the same. One class of problems may not ever even affect one distro (or one release of windows) so your linux userbase and collective knowledge is split up into smaller chunks with one set of users never even knowing of certain problems because their preferred distro is not affected much as in windows.

Maybe we need a internet drivers license? You can't go online until you know how to not buy spam products from unsolicted email or forward that "check out this sad story of a boy with 27 forms of cancer" email to 15 people or else your liver will shrivel up and you will die.  

As for a random CUPS error, hah! Have you not seen the screen that has a bunch of gobbledy-gook about memory fault and it has an all blue background. Then when you reboot it says ntldr missing or corrupt. Lol, thanks a lot windows. It takes 27 minutes to boot into your recovery console.

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