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I see more discussion on installing, compiling, and choosing a non-Windows operating system more than actual examples of using the operating system.  What do you actually do with the operating system?  What do you spend the majority of your time on the operating system doing besides futzing around with the operating system itself (installing drivers, tweaking settings, etc)?

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BTW, honestly I like how Windows behaves under heavy load better than Linux
Windows just gives more CPU-time to the explorer, so that the user doesn't recognize heavy load that much. Unfortunately it takes it away from other, critical processes, like databases, webservers...
Linux has just other priorities.

And you don't hear about them that much because the stuff except installing drivers just works.
apt-get install <insert program name>
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wait 15b Seconds -> Runs. If you like to compile it yourself, then do it - I'll stay with my precompiled binaies for now :)