IMHO it's really the way Linux and other Unix-likes do dynamic linking that's "not a good thing", as well as the "hypermodularisation" that Linus alludes to (the left-pad fiasco would be an extreme example of that.)
Windows prioritizes DLLs sitting next to the application over ones installed system-wide, so you can ship your DLLs with your app, gaining all the benefits of static linking while not losing the benefits of dynamic linking.
True, but I have seen software where the DLL files are in the directory where the EXE lies. So copy+paste from another computer works just fine (in most cases).
Left-pad wasn't really a fiasco. It briefly broke a couple of people's build. If anything, it showed how resilient the system is. People are actually starting to use NPM as a system package manager.
Meanwhile, dependency hell on Linux distributions keeps people stuck on outdated versions of software, because some piece somewhere is either too old or too new.
