I know what you mean.
When I was much younger then I am now, I hated PC's, they never seamed to want to work right. They would crash, freez, go to the blue screen of death, have fatal errors, cause illegal operations, and so many other things that I had no idea how to deal with as a little kid. Back then all I wanted them for was to play games, but I figured that anything I could get from a PC, I could get from a console, with better grafx and much fewer problems. These days thats still very true, computers are still bug filled things. but about four years ago I started to like computers, due to the, new at the time, internet. I was using a computer with a monitor that was completly worn out which projected a picture I could barly make out, an A: drive that was contantly readsing itself for no reason, no sound, videos that could only be viewed through their properties menues, and a 28k modem. I used that computer for 2 years, and even though it was pure #### to use, and I basicly spent 99% of the time I was on it fixing things, it did teach me hgow to tame if the the worst of computers. My computer I use now runs flawlessly, despite the fact that It is using windows and is over 2 years old.
Windows is a good operating system, its just very difficult to learn how to use without destroying in the process.