“It pisses me off that Microsoft changes stuff, just for the sake of change.”
Come over to the Force, Luke. I rebelled at Vista and went over to Linux. Absolutely no regrets.
I work on Linux every day - for servers. Very reliable.
Not so crazy about Linux GUIs like Xwindows, though. And, old as I am, I have adapted to GUIs and kind of like them (though I miss DOS 3.0 sometimes...).
I loathe and despise *nix. It's way too brittle, file-permissions and groups and how they need to be just so (and get messed up at the slightest provocation) as just one example. It's design philosophy I find repugnant, unsurprising considering C's philosophy*: no, everything is not a file.
*It could be worse, they could have gone with PHP's philosophy. {Where 'magic' automatic conversions fail, give no warning, and give absolutely incorrect results: "09" as an integer is 0.}