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April 11th 2016, 12:56 PM
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shevek
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windows comes with all the basic stuff
No it doesn't. That added a few things to it, such as a browser and I think a media player. But the large majority of applications (photo editing, office, etc) you need to install separately.

On GNU/Linux, pretty much everything is part of the system. That means it is so large, that it doesn't actually install all of it on your computer. But you can easily install new packages from within the system; you don't need to go to some random company's website and hope they don't install malware on your computer; instead you will download them from your distribution, which makes sure they work well with your system, and you can trust them (if you trust the maintainers, of course; the difference is that for Windows you need to trust Microsoft, and for every program you install on it you need to trust yet another corporation; with a distribution you trust one organization for all the software).

A typical installation has all the things you would expect, but it is possible to do a minimal install which has almost nothing installed. It sounds like you had one of those.