Well, as they say, “common sense is not very common”, but thinking a bit before rushing in may always do good.
about the "quote"
It actually should read
It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare
as written by Voltaire, it appears, but I didn’t know that and only met derivatives of this quote.
Pretty much sums my experience with windows, something you want will either work fine, or be mysteriously broken beyond repair with no apparent reason. MacOS is like that sometimes, too. Linux is not perfect, but it usually allows for a fix to exist.