Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
Linux is whatever the end user wants it to be, yes alot of it runs off scripts like xorg, but if you want a very lightweight OS its perfect out of the box, however if you want an atheistically pleasing OS, you can download packages to make it look better, like compiz config manager, etc.

An operating system is used to manage the hardware software and provide an interface to control your PC from, nothing more, Windows just add loads of crap you don't need like aero which push the requirements up, they are doing the same thing, its just Windows is full of bloatware.

And I have only ever run Ubuntu on a laptop, I only ever get asked for to download my graphics drivers, and the only serious problem I have had is hybrid graphics, because xorg has problems, but the developers of both graphics cards and Linux are working to fix it.
Yeah, I know how it works, I dual boot Linux and Windows on my laptop.