In my own opinion windows is a whole lot easier for newbies and there are much more tutorials for windows available and its easier to setup moniotor and control but thats just my bised opinion cause I couldnt setup linux remote monitor and some why my miners got curropted after some power failures so keep all my rigs on windows , got many free keys due to university :p
I think with any system you can understand it would be the desire and motivation. Especially when there is an Internet and search engines at hand. The main thing is not to be lazy.