Until recently, Windows has always been an OS for power users. It's incredibly configurable for a proprietary platform, perhaps even more so than some of the ne

Until recently, Windows has always been an OS for power users. It's incredibly configurable for a proprietary platform, perhaps even more so than some of the newer FOSS DEs. When I was younger, I used to have fun changing the text on the Start menu to "Fart" and turning the trash can into a toilet seat! The former involved editing the raw binary of explorer.exe, but there were GUI tools for doing just that. The latter was a piece of cake since I could do it with good ol' regedit. Even now, I think Windows 7 had the most power user-friendly DE ever to grace the Earth, and I look forward to KDE 5 since it looks like it might be a worthy replacement.