There is no hint of the sluggishness that I'm used to with Windows.-superboyac
Even with accelerated video drivers, stuff like resizing windows tend to be sluggish compared to Windows because of the way X11 and the various graphics toolkits work. And last time I had a native linux install on my workstation, the default gnome
text editor started in about the same time as Visual Studio 2005... not impressed. Also, second-time (hot-from-cache) launches weren't much faster, leaving me thinking that there's something horribly broken somewhere. I guess things could have changed since those couple of years back, but seeing how slow stuff launches on friends Linux and OS X laptops, I'm not convinced.
But I hate how you have to be constantly tweaking it and taking care of it to make sure you have no problems.-superboyac
You do? I haven't experienced this since the Win9x days, and that's even though I install/uninstall a lot of stuff. Since jumping onto Win2k, things have run pretty well unless I've messed up majorly, say by writing buggy driver code and testing it on my main machine rather than a VM or dedicated test box. Same goes for all the machines I've managed.
And no matter what anyone says, I strongly feel that for the power of any given pc's hardware, Windows makes very poor use of it.-superboyac
IMHO it does - each new version of Windows has raised the minimum hardware requirements, and not always by justified amounts, but at the same time has been better at utilizing higher-end machines. While Win7 has higher requirements than XP64, it certainly runs a whole lot
better on my workstation. Same goes for Vista on my laptop (which isn't even all that powerful). If anything is sluggish it's the applications - and if that bothers you, stick with older versions instead of going for latest-and-greatest if you don't need it. I could live with Office2000 just fine, which is blindingly fast compared to 2003 and 2007... but because of cost, I stick with OpenOffice which is a sluggish pig even compared to Office2007.
When I read explanations of how to do something in Linux, I tense up. The terminology, the assumptions about what a user knows and is comfortable with, seem very alien.-cyberdiva
Amen to that - despite the polishing-up of a lot of distros, linux just isn't written for regular users. As soon as you need to do something slightly non-trivial that the GUI frontend won't let you do (mindbogglingly difficult and unordinary tasks like using multiple monitors come to mind) you gotta drop to a terminal and very poor documentation.
Anyway, it's all a matter of being able to experiment and opening our minds up. Let go of emotions, and be rational about the whole thing. After all, it's only software, there's no need to be emotionally tied to it.-superboyac
One thing is being emotionally attached, another is being disappointed with mostly half-assed clones of Windows software.
Incidentally I'm not sure why the "Macs are better for graphics" myth continues.-JavaJones
Yeah, that does seem
pretty silly 
How do I just remain logged in permanently as an admin?-superboyac
You
don't, just like you don't turn off UAC on Vista/Win7. You don't
need to (and really really shouldn't) be logged on as admin for extended periods of times.
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