Software is crap everywhere. But on Linux I have the tools to quickly track down the bug and fix it, on windows I can maybe slowly track down the bug and attempt binary patching of proprietary software or hope and pray the developers will fix it after I beg them.

This is a privileged position as I am both a Linux expert, and an expert software engineer, and an expert troubleshooter/debugger. If you are not these things then I'm sure things don't work as well.