Linux is a time sinkhole to someone not familiar with it. You are probably almost unaware of the huge investment in time you spent learning windows because the lessons happened gradually over many years and you don't give it a second thought. You just "know it" and forgot that you had to "learn it."
Funny someone should bring this up. I was a Windows guy for all but the last 5 years or so. I've switched to Linux, gradually at first, then one day when Windows pissed me, I said enough is enough! Sure I had a few things that stopped working (like my old trusted SCSI film scanner) but after a few years, even those started working in Linux. Yet what recently surprised me was that I was given a Windows machine and asked to do something that I used to have no problem: program in Visual Studio. I had no idea how difficult it would turn out to be. It seemed that nothing fits, nor was it where I would expect it to be. Like having 2 left hands and bumbling between them. Little by little, things started coming back to me. In about 2 hours I started to find my way around. Given a few days, I'd probably remember most. What I'm trying to say is that if you take that gradual learning path on Linux, then Windows seems a time sink-hole that no-one in their right mind would want to wither their days with. Oh, by the way, I feel that way with Mac user interface. I can't find my way around there if my life depended on it!
So, while I do think Linux is the best :), I guess in the end it comes down to which OS you know better yourself.
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