Hey, What a great question, I started trying Linux in 2004 when I found out its existence from my girl who worked at Novell. I tried various distros and I still do actually, the live CD/USB format makes it possible to check out every OS that catches your interest but I have Kubuntu on on machine now for nearly 4 years now and on another machine I've got Xubuntu and I cant seem to part with them. I've tried the original Ubuntu but like many have said before me; its not so easy to customize the newer versions and even if it would be easy it isnt as much fun somehow(then again I didnt try fanaticly either). At the moment I'm customizing a Fedora 19 laptop with Gnome Shell and I was very dissapointed with the customisation options. Now I'm getting there and being able to customize themes in CSS is certainly a nice find, still its not the same as it was on any of my Ubuntu machines. Also the amount of software in Ubuntu's repos are awesome to say the least, I found that not every distro can say that. As for Windows, Always when I want to do something in Windows I seem to run into more things it cant or wont do, I play games on Linux under Wine and when I try them in Windows theres always something lacking. What pisses me off the most is when you download a game or app, install it, the installer says: for this and that reason you cant install this in windows... ...so why doesnt it install?? Is there missing dependecies, misplaced library paths, missing libraries, wrong folder permissions?? Windows wont tell, it will just tell you you've just wasted another half hour of your life using an inferior system that pre-dates Linux a decade or so. Only good thing is ASIO, music production on Linux can be a pain and Windows handles it much better (for now I hope)
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