Re:true... but (Score 1)

It may be very difficult to do some things in Linux for the first time but this is also true for Windows. Maybe even more so as M$ is trying to make Windows more polished they make fine tunning much more difficult though I doubt that such things would ever occur to a simple user. Some configuration of Word is almost impossible. Linux is far from incomprehencible and if you're that way inclined word processing is easy enough. You don't have to spend hour with Linux just because it is Linux.

Has any one even stopped to consider the time wasted as a result of lost work due to Windows crashes with comparison to time spent learning a Linux?

With resent builds of Linux, even installation is nolonger nightmare it used to be.