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Trust me, if you used Linux for some time you will feel the same about Windows. I certainly do. It starts with installing programs by download installers, goes over not having windows dock on each other and ends with having no useful terminal.

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+1. My sister is on Ubuntu since years and she had to temporarily switch back to XP : the painful experience she described was just similar to what you usually hear the other way around.

I have not found this to be the case. I use Windows full time at home and have used various linuxes full time at work, but I always found that it was easier to correct Windows' pain points (e.g. by installing Cygwin) than it was to fix linux (how to get a decent feeling UI?).

How are commercial apps normally installed on Linux? (I'm presuming it's not by downloading installers.)

I'm not a fan of arbitrary window docking - I have my own layout system based on cascading - while Cygwin rxvt provides most of what I want out of a terminal, shell etc.

You download installers, just like you would for Windows.

If you want to install Komodo IDE for Linux you download the tarball and double-click the excutable (or start it from a console).

Want to install github firewall install? Download tarball, double-click excutable.

Actually it is by downloading installers(or at least it has been in my experience. Houdini, Java, etc. )

Java has been in the repositories for years. Also Ubuntu has an "App Store" for commercial packages now. I haven't tried it, though.

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