A long time ago, I felt the same way. Eventually, you begin to feel differently. You begin to feel the control a Linux OS gives you as far as what you want to load on the system, how you want it to work and the freedom from closed source software. You learn to use command line tools intuitively and you begin to feel like you can ‘see’ the system much better then any GUI will afford.
No hard evidence, no tips or advise. Just a story about my own experiences