Love at first sight is possible.

The best way to get involved with C1 CMS is to get to know it in depth and use it where it fits – build web sites on C1 CMS, small and large. We hope that you will become steadily fonder of C1 CMS as you work with it, and we are fairly certain that your ability to deliver advanced quality web sites with C1 CMS will improve fast.

If you so far have only read about C1 CMS visit http://docs.c1.orckestra.com/Download and get hands on experience with C1 CMS. If you can boot Windows you can get C1 CMS up and running on your machine.