I know what you mean. My home PC has both Windows 2003 and Linux on it. I just don't like Linux and I really tried to see what the fuss is all about ... it's not THAT great.
All the fuss is because it's something of a rite of passage for geeks to be into Linux, and even more of a rite of passage to be a shill for Linux/the open source movement. Might be why it's been so slow to become as user friendly as Windows (more user friendly equates to loss of geekyness). You have these people who think they're "1337" because they do everything with a text-based browser or the command line.
Don't get me wrong though, I have plenty of complaints about Windows and I use Linux on my servers. But the level of blind fanaticism over Linux on the part of some people is pretty unbelievable.
So you like the spyware treats?