The ugly truth is that fdisk is a hell-spawned minion that will ravage your brain, cause general mayhem, and make you want to replace the word "fuck" with "fdisk" as the F-word of choice in your cursing vocabulary.
Soon you reach an appealing desktop environment, designed by blind children (God bless Microsoft for allowing disabled children the opportunity to work on their products).
My Windows computer stays on until I go to bed, when I shut it off. My OpenBSD box stays on for days and days on end, because I can't figure out how to turn the damn thing off!