Very good on you for realizing this point! 
As most people, I spent my whole life with Windows (until a few years ago). GNU/Linux was a little different at first of course. But to me, actually seemed to make a lot more sense the way everything is laid out. The file system heirarchy, common commands (and directory names) are very short at command line, almost all configs in text files, pipes, “everything is a file” (including devices), the “Unix Philosophy” (lots of little programs, each doing one thing well, which you can combine together in your own way to do whatever you want). And on and on.
Here is a great old video (from AT&T Archives) about “Unix Philosophy”:
Now, all of the above are Nice Things™, but they are not even the most important differences between Windows and GNU/Linux. Any comparison between the two on a strictly features or usability standpoint is entirely missing what is by far the biggest difference!
Of course I am talking about your Freedom! On this point we are now talking about apples and oranges between the two! GNU/Linux was explicitly designed from the beginning with your freedom in mind! It is all about what is good for you and what you want to do with your system, instead of what { Microsoft, Google, Sony, NSA, RPi foundation, […] } want to do with it, and then only letting you do what they let you.
This is by far the biggest difference, and one that is not mentioned often enough IMO. And I did not really “get” what all the excitement about GNU/Linux was all about, until I got my head around this very important distinction.
I highly encourage you if you are at all interested in this (IMO, very important) topic to please follow the “Freedom” link above where you will find a very short video which I have found to be one of the best short introductions to the concept of Free/Libre Software, for those completely unfamiliar.