Let me put it this way
Windows and I go way, way back. Back when it still had dos running underneath it and everything would be unrecognizable to modern windows users.
I was actually taught by my dad on how to use dos, I grew up on even older systems, with hardware that actually used caset (sp?) tapes as we now use hard disks, damn that time was awesome!
I have used it all the way up until even windows 7.
Then (just a few years ago) I was given linux by a friend, I started with ubuntu, bought a few books on the linux system, tried some other distributions and found crunchbang.
It was love on first sight.
I regret ever having spent time with that damned windows system, that pile of crap has caused me so much grief, such an unforgivable amount of annoyance I will never ever touch it again, not even to play my large collection of games, *** that ***, it's just not worth it.
Linux is not perfect by any means, but it is way beyond what windows will ever be.
All I can hope for now is more people making games that run on linux systems and I'm all good. Luckily there's stuff like the humble indy bundle, those are a great boon to starting over a new games collection.
And of course there's starfarer.