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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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Play around with programming, do cool shit with virtualisation (vmware, qemu). You can do all that on windows, but windows really isn't meant for it (or anything else that's marginally demanding), and it shows.