That was exactly my experience giving Linux a try for the first time. I gave up but then decided to give it another try with Linux Mint. I've been using it for over a year now and I haven't looked back. There is a small amount of software that I just can't get to work on Linux so I have dual boot set up, but I found myself booting into windows fewer and fewer times. And now I'm at a point where I actually dread booting into windows. I't just doesn't feel like it's my machine anymore when it's running windows.
Long story short, give it time, try a few distros and you will eventually get used to it, at which point you will not want to go back to windows.