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I crank it all the way up, myself.

But I wanted to point out that this is a spot to be careful about decisions. The natural choice is to pick a default that you like yourself, but that's probably a choice that would ultimately hinder adoption of Linux as a desktop OS.

Geeks like a faster setting, but geeks also universally know that this sort of thing can be customized, and can easily figure out how to change it. Non-geeks are more likely to find a fast setting to be frustrating or unusable, and are also less likely to know that they have an option to slow it down.




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