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I left Windows desktop for Linux two years ago, and what I realize now that took a while to happen was a shift in mentality:

- When you use Windows, you consume the OS. Everything about it is given, all you do is take.

- When you use Linux, you take part in a give-and-take relationship with the OS, because the OS is attached to a community that works on it, around it.

Using Linux means that you're not going to have everything given to you on a silver plate. But you also get to make your own silver plate and pass it around.

>>ByThyG+(OP)
Probably we have very different use cases. I use my laptop to browse, edit documents, develop programs and transfer/view media files. In all these I'd very much like to not even know I have an operating system. So the major difference is I'm not using the laptop to have relationships, with it or with some community, and the less I need to fiddle outside the above use cases, the more I appreciate the experience.