Windows may be more usable out of the box than Linux (can't say it's easier to install since nowadays, Windows pretty much comes pre-installed and it's getting harder and harder to find Windows installation disks that acutally work) but it usually succumbs to an entropic death in a year or two, unlike Linux (when you finally get it working) which keeps going and going and going …
Some choices, huh?
And every year for the past six years, Linux has been two years away from being a viable desktop OS (Operating System).
Something to think about …