Arch Linux. `# pacman -S nvidia` Worked with every video card I've installed it on with performance as good or better than windows. Includes old old cards like GT 9800 and new new cards like GTX 690. Installing a SINGLE package is as much out-of-the-box as you can get, in fact even more out-of-the-box than it is on windows.

I would actually agree with that. Most of us forget that we've at one point spent tons of times reading documentation for the simplest things, like fprintf. At some point one just starts assuming that they know how to use a class/method by it's name and "auto-completion" in IDEs. However, from my experience anyway, that's where 90% of bugs happen. Kind of why I made the switch to vim and actually READ THE DOCS. It doesn't take that long, you just need to get the overall idea. And saves much more time in debugging later.

I would gladly come, but I'm (a few months) underage (just under 18). A quite sad story, seems I won't be able to dispel the illusion that "these young kids" are all dumb and don't even know ASM. :(