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I agree with regards to subtleness, but I'd rather investigate a bit than compile somebody else's software, which always bites for several reasons. Compiling is like taking a pee. Just something you gotta do, no pleasure in it, and you can hold your dick for it, but you most surely don't want to hold somebody else's.
Under Windows, I do tweak everything; I admit it's less obvious than Linux, but it's also much less troublesome, comes usually fine, and there's not one gazillion libraries, toolkits, servers, systems, and applications you have to fully configure, compile, install, setup and tweak to get something working.
Under Windows, I see stuff I like online, then I donwload it, and run it, it's just that simple; if I don't like it afterwards I uninstall it, and if I like it, I tweak it and add it to my custom menus, App Paths (a good idea, and thousands of times better than the /usr/bin "box'o'shit" btw), and stuff.