What I like about the linux desktop is that it does not have to be this super heavy "and the kitchen sink" environment. There is a lot of freedom to be found he

What I like about the linux desktop is that it does not have to be this super heavy "and the kitchen sink" environment. There is a lot of freedom to be found here. Some would say almost too much. For example, I am a sys-admin, not only do I not mind managing my system via text console, I prefer it. It is fairly trivial to go off the deep end of "standard desktop environments" install one of them tiling window managers and have my perfect desktop, nothing overlaps, terminals for days, hot-keys to do anything, I never see my root window. No file-manager, it is almost the anti-desktop. I love it. But this amazing environment just does not exist in microsoft or apple land.