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As soon as a distro has a control panel equivalent that has stuff like a driver manager and event log it's all over
They do
You might be surprised to learn that multiple distros have control panel equivalent of driver managers and event logs.
People without much OS knowledge use windows because that's what's installed on the PC when they buy it. If best buy sold a PC with a just works distro installed they'd use it and not really know or care
I know Ubuntu has had that for a while, which means that others probably have as well.