Wrong.
And - wrong again. Unless you are referring to UAC.
Hiding root inside a cryptic shell is a good security practice to rely on, and brag about over Windows' user-friendly elevation prompts?
Oh really? Windows approved drivers??
There's even such a thing as Linux approved drivers??
You forgot to preface your post with the "Emotional Rant" tag...
What. A lot of hardware like video cards and peripherals are supported only in Windows, and if Linux users want it they have to deal with second-best vendor drivers or reverse engineered drivers.
Please direct me (us) to this new research that supports this claim.
See my comment about X crashes
Does that somehow equate to a "crash"??
Yes, when X becomes unresponsive and I have to kill it with zap or alt-sysrq-k then that's a crash.
Spend a lot of time supporting Vista do you? Is Aero your dancing bear of choice?
OK then, share your experience, if you managed to upgrade enough machines in your Windows ME environment to have any.
Windows has many significant flaws, but these aren't any of them.