Here's the repository of all our written knowledge; http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/

Typing this out on an old, under-powered netbook that flies using #! so know what you mean about "speed and snappiness."

Since Dota 2 is being ported to linux soon,  I almost see no reason to stick with windows for much longer,  perhaps I will dual boot.  I fell in love with crunchbang for its minimalist approach,  and after installing it,  almost everything works,  I'm impressed.  I much prefer speed and snapiness over fancy 3d effects and shit.  I just seem to be having problems setting my resolution so I made an account to take advantage of that help section.  I'll probably toil around with it some more since I hate asking for help but I do feel like I'm running in circles lol.  I hope crunchbang doesnt become too much of a challenge for me.