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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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giving the mouse and input events absolute priority does no good when when no applications are responding to it!  my windows stalls plenty of times under super heavy load. 

while linux may take cycles from your precious web browsing during large file i/o operations, it will complete those operations faster.  try niceing your stuff.