Steenamaro, it's scary!
Starting with computers in the early 80s with Basic, DOS, Unix and all this crap has caused me a trauma big enough to not want to get back to a similar reality! LoL!
But I think that modern Linux references cannot be compared to that old times. Things are too much better now. The last time I tried it (past year) I got positively surprised with the amount of improvements on it. I could install Ubuntu (12 and 14) and had my machine hardware COMPLETELY recognized automatically and everything worked in the very first attempt.
In my opinion, Linux (read Ubuntu as I don't know other distributions) is ready for the end user and very very VERY close to reach its maturity as a operation system. The ONLY problem for me (at least for ME) is that still there are too little options on compatible applications. And some of them never will such as Visual Studio, MS-SQL, Photoshop, Flash, etc. So, in MY case while I still have a professional career I cannot stick to it. Maybe only to have it installed on my computer as a second boot just for fun (what doesn't make too much sense for me) but just that. The case is that I started my professional life in the MS era and now it is too late for me to quit everything and start over.
Nonetheless I strongly encourage the twenty something dudes to invest on Linux world. It is definitively the future. In 20 or 30 years Windows will be a far far away remembering of something in the awakening of the personal computers history.