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10+ years of Windows and I still can't say I'm familiar with it.
Linux has a steep learning curve for sure, but if I have to say one good thing about it, it's the openness of Linux.
I dread seeing the message "An unknown error has just occurred" when I use Windows. Tell me, Microsoft, tell me what the error was!
Linux has a steep learning curve, but what I learned distro-hopping and messing around in my free time helps me every day at work with Debian-based servers.
Learning bash, the filesystem hierarchy and the syntax of config files is applicable everywhere.
Messing around on Windows 10 doesn't help one bit in administering a server.
Agreed, the lack of proper (and often any) error messages is incredibly infuriating. It makes it impossible to diagnose anything, the only thing you can do is look for forum posts to make sense of the weird behaviour.
On linux, if something doesn't work it tells me why and I can just follow a chain to the root cause every time without fail.