I honestly think it has to do with how much time people have. In all fairness my experience is similar to others in that after the 8-10h fighting with it I probably spent all my time outside of my day job using it without any problem. But I basically had no life outside of this at the time. Others either use Linux for a living or somehow can manage their time really well.

When you feel like you have all the time it isn't an issue but after I barely got away from a very busy and very long work and all I want to do is rest for 2h and watch some entertainment or edit some document/form or even keep up with a hobby project and Linux eats away my evening/weekend, that's a different experience.

But I still like Linux a lot, the community makes it worth the fight.