Windows VS. Linux

Well no technical article in my blog so i thought i will write one. Its not exactly technical but it feels nice to call it one. Actually its not at all technical, its just a general observation from my side excluding the technical specifications.
From some time i have started seeing this trend of putting windows insulting message in the Yahoo or Gtalk messenger status bar. Some being "You moved your mouse, please restart for this to take effect" or "failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows". There are lots of them to choose from if you just search for it in google. This made me to think is Windows really that bad? Or is Linux really that better?
This days it has become a fashion to Ridicule Windows OS. It is like loving to hate Windows OS. Many of them feel that if they work in Linux they will be considered more technically stronger than when they work on Windows. You put the status message in the messenger and let the world know that you have learnt Linux now or atleast pretend that you have and you are not an ordinary Windows user anymore. And then you will make sure that somehow you start the Windows vs. Linux debate in any general conversations and support Linux so that you can show your superiority. And if this is not enough when you will get a chance to work on Windows any time and your doing a simple copy and paste using ctrl+c and ctrl+v you will shout loudly so that everybody can hear, that its so difficult to do anything in Windows, in Linux it is sooo easy and i am tired of this Windows stuff. And whenever you need to restart windows for some changes to take effect or some device to get installed you will cry that this is the problem with Windows it needs to be retsarted everytime. Windows hangs for some reason and you will give react as the world has fallen apart saying this is the problem with Windows, not at all stable.
What i think that there is one simple thing that makes the difference in popularity of all the products. I am only talking about popularity here. Once anybody creates a product they can have two basic design ideas. First is I will make the product in the way the customer wants to use it. And the second philosophy is I will make the product as I want it to be used by the customer. The thing to note here is that even the first idea will not work always as even the customer sometimes doesn't know what he/she wants. I think it takes a Genius to make the second idea working. I mean its really hard to make a product which you want to be used in a particular way and it may not be the same way as the customer wants to use it and it becomes a hit. Just apply this ideas to Windows or Linux or any other product and you will know why any product is more popular.