Setting up Windows with an Admin account that will protect you from doing stupid things to yourself is an afterthought. Most people don't even know how to do it.
It's 2nd nature for any Linux installation.
Still, most of us don't even use the computers any more, we just use the applications. That's why I'm looking so seriously at Android. The OS is app-based, not system-based.
I have a severe dislike for touchpads and touchscreens.
I have never had such devices work reliably for me.
Ever.
“Oh, you clicked waaaay over here? OKay!”
And it’s nowhere near what I touched.
:-/
Windows 8 was designed for touch based systems, not tower or desktops that still use mouse input.
[Goes hand in hand with the lie that PC gaming is dead.]