My time is worth something, but I enjoy spending time using a computer. Some people buy a cheap car and drive it to work every day, and don't mind that it runs and looks like crap so long as it gets you places; some people build most of their cars themselves in the garage and spend 3 hours a day waxing it once it's done. Depends what you want out of your computer.

Linux isn't run by a shady company that blatantly abuses and lies to its customers, which is probably why there's so much anti-MS FUD. Linux dorks write their own OS; they aren't going to FUD themselves, and of course they have more personal, emotional interest in such things, because the OS is a personal project. Linux guys get slammed too though, even by other Linux guys, when they do something stupid. Did you read all the stuff about the xfree project? Changed a line in their copyright document, and resulted in a community-wide boycott. Read some of the distro-wars, or programming-language-wars. There's plenty of internal Linux fanaticism too, as much as external anti-MS fanaticism.