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Depends what you do on Windows. As someone who never really got into gaming and who loved programming it was the obvious choice.
Windows singularly fails in some of the most basic operations you could want from an OS. It makes me so angry the way it takes so long to copy a bunch of files, for example. Or if it won't delete some files because one 'is still in use' but it won't tell me which one or which program is using it! Why? Its infuriating.
Linux has none of these issues. And with a enough time, native ports of some of the games I used to play became available. I would never go back to Windows now.