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I'm sympathetic to a Windows install taking days (I've been there), but you're right that it's not Windows' fault. It's always some 10 year-old hardware with dodgy or no-longer-supported drivers. Maybe you could make an argument that it's partly Windows' fault because they push driver support onto the hardware vendors, rather than use Linux' model of having the kernel developers maintain them.
That's fair. I guess when they mentioned they were building a PC I assumed it was relatively recent hardware. But I've been there when you can't get or find drivers, or Windows tells you the old drivers aren't compatible with newer OS' and things like that.