When everything works exactly as planned, assuming that you have no interest in trying to figure out what is going on, etc, etc, etc, Windows does indeed succeed in making life easier.

In the real world I find that those simple successes pretty much take care of themselves. And there Unix leaves you in much better shape to detect that there is a problem and resolve it in situations where Windows delivers you to a blank wall.

The fact that you are getting Perl, for free, with the ability to go look at the source and learn from it is very much a product of an attitude that comes from the Unix world, not Windows.