The year of Linux is always going to be next year, they would always give that cry, "Next year is going to be the year of Linux" , unfortunately next year never comes. I guess if you keep saying it every year as they have for the last 15+ years, you'd have to say that it will eventually come true. Alas in the case of Linux, it's never going to happen, and certainly not while Linux is so fragmented with eleventy 2 gazillion forks and versions, it's a mess, but they say "Linux is about choice" , yeah choice between one inferior product and another . . . well I made my choice, I chose Windows. Linux lacks any serious support from REAL hardware and software developers/manufacturers, most of what the FOSS people develop as in drivers and 'alternate' software is substandard, lacking in features, and just plain behind the game when compared to the commercial stuff available for Windows(there are of course a few exceptions, very few).
Web surfing, Email, text editing etc is fine with Linux, but when you want to do something above and beyond that, something more specialized, well it's just not worth the effort, you get much better performance, a much better experience, much more useful and full feature sets with Windows, and it just works. The zealots will predictably always point to servers to show the superiority of Linux (quite frankly there isn't anything else to point to, but hey . . . don't let that spoil your party) even that has been, and is being whittled away, oh . . . and how much fun are you having with your server ? Yeah I know, we need those servers for all the things we need them for, but still, how much fun are you having with your Linux server?
Then they will come out with the other predictable point of superiority, virus's, well, it's not that big of a problem, I have had only one virus since the mid 90's, that was in '98, got from a file sent from a friend, caused me no issues, just get rid of it and carry on. My security is practically non existent, and always has been, all my computers are permanently connected to the net, none of my DAW PC's have any AV, Firewalls or any other type of protection, only my 2 laptops that surf the net and download stuff run Avast and that's it, I really don't see the issue, it's mostly about your PC/internet habits, go putting your hands in the fire and your going to get burned. (yeah I know you can point to many instances of virus issues and horror stories with Windows users) , but in my experience, and that is the only experience that matters to me, and the only one I can be sure about, it mostly comes down to your computing habits (there is no cure for stupidity) Plus the user base is to small for any self respecting malcontent to bother writing a virus for Linux 
I could use Linux, but I would be restricting myself, restricting myself to what software and hardware I can use/run, restrict myself of the time I could be actually having fun or being productive, by eternally fixing things and trying to get things to work, or I could use Windows and just enjoy the experience, do what I want, use what I want with the minimum of fuss, enjoy the support of the vast majority of Hardware and Software Developers/Manufacturers . . . I know which one I will choose. (of course there are those who experience issue, etc in Windows, from my experience, like the virus case, that also comes down to how you use it and your habits, that's just my experience) I am enjoying, and have enjoyed a relatively trouble free Windows experience, as has millions of others. As I said before, Winblows isn't perfect by a long shot, but it's a hell of a lot closer than Linsux.
Yeah . . . Win Blows . . . but Lin Sux
[Edit] Oh, and have you heard? Cakewalk is developing a native Linux version of SONAR
(wonder if it would turn out better than the SONAR4Mac 
If it were true, which it isn't, makes sense, think about it, Cakewalk/SONAR/Linux, they deserve each other, it would be a match made in heaven
