Definetly! I recommend checking out either "Ubuntu" or "Mint." Both can be run as live CD's as to not make any changes to your system what so ever. Any more questions, just post
I did think I'd seen a bigger version.... wow!
Oh you..
Most won't be large or public enough so that's probably the best you'll get
We don't need DX11...we need something as "easy/complete" (some windows guys said on this forum) that could help OpenGL along with being easy for the lazy devs and/or sequel pumping publishers. D3D and OpenGL are pretty even the last I checked(OpenGL had tesselation first IIRC)...it was the developing it and the audio things that people said were a problem; but that's what I've heard I don't know about that last part.
When you don't have the source code for something, like anything owned by microsoft. Then yes it is very hard to do anything with it because its all a guessing game.
Sigh, go troll elsewhere. Sometimes people really amaze me. Come to the Linux section to talk trash about Linux
There are so many things wrong with your analogy that I will just say this. The ONLY things windows has going for it is #1 gaming which is not a fault of linux. it is because of poor driver support of manufacturers. Also the fact that mainstream games are written for DX which is closed source and only MICROSOFT has the source. #2 is the fact that before windows 8 which forces metro at the user, even pc illiterate people can use the start/taskbar to navigate around and yes it is the same on every copy of say windows 98/NT/2000/ME/xp/7 when you install it.