My distro of choice is Arch and I originally switched to Linux both out of interest and also after becoming fed up with bizzarro issues I'd encounter on Windows. There's so many weird ideas that are just accepted as being the way it is because people don't really use anything other than Windows. Defragmenting a hard drive is only something you have to do on Windows, for instance, but of course that's less of an issue now as the world moves away from mechanical drives.
There's plenty of other things I could list, but the bottom line is I just don't feel like Linux ever gets in my way, and if you put in the time to really get to grips with whats going on then you're going to end up with a system that's far more flexible than a Windows install could ever be.