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Well, from Your post, seemed that You haven't used Linux at all. You just played with VMWare for few months... Anyhow, It's Your problem actually. Beware, though. "We wont fix Your computer" ;)...

Oh, BTW:
"When something goes wrong in Windows, I can at least look around at my options. In Linux, you have to look at documentation and examples, and guess what the syntax and settings are for your configuration."

This statement definitely deserve to be put, somewhere, in bold, and underlined, twice. As a brilliant example of ignorance. In Windows Server You just "look around Your options", and in linux "You have to look documentation and examples". Holly crap. Everybody in the world, feeds Windows 2008 Server knowledge with the mother's milk, what every crappy option, in every crappy window means, even without reading docs. Must say it my IIS admin, who fights for two weeks with random HTTP 413 errors for users with client certificates... Recently he came out with solution which definitely isn't that simple (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/7e0d74d3-ca01-4d36-8ac7-6b2ca03fd383.mspx?mfr=true)... Oh, maybe should I ask technet guys, to look around better? Shouldn't I?

What he said.

My first reaction when I read "In Linux, you have to look at documentation and examples, and guess what the syntax and settings are for your configuration." in TFA, was absolute shock. You think documentation and examples are, in some universe, a BAD thing? People should be so lucky as to have such things. That's like preferring to starve to death because it's too much work to instead drive your Cadillac with the air conditioner on to have free dinner served to you by Playboy Bunnies.

Ridiculous marketing advertisement pretending to be a blog.

Advertising what?

My question exactly. I disagree with your conclusion, but I'm under no illusions that you're marketing anything.

Your use case seems to be entirely limited to running VMware, in which case Windows is a fine solution. However, if you do anything beyond just running a single application in its default configuration, I'm guessing you would find Linux more amenable to the task.

"I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?"

See, I wouldn't had minded if you did a fair comparison and went to Windows. If in your situation you found Windows to work better than Linux, and were able to support it, then by all means, go for it.

However, it seems like you didn't make an honest or decent effort to learn Linux at all, which is putting some people off on this. Maybe you did, but it sure didn't seem that way in your post.

I posted a follow-up to clarify some things:
http://www.ytechie.com/2008/04/re-switching-from-linux-to-windows-2008.html

I'm very confuse why it was in popular links...