"My windows machine doesn't make me look anything up or go out of my way to learn how to use it because I already know how"

And the reason you 'already know how' is because you have already invested the time in Windows that you are unwilling to invest in Linux.

I've been using Linux for several years now. Before that, I taught DOS and DOS-based applications.

I had to invest time in learning DOS. Then I had to un-learn quite a bit to learn to mouse around with Windows. Then I did the grunt work learning for Linux.

I decided to learn Linux when I realized that every new version of Windows I was using called for a pretty severe re-training anyways ... I might as well run something cutting edge and fun.