Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me (Score 1)

You are missing the point. He wanted to use the computer for SOMETHING, not to endlessly configure it. I hear him. I am an ex-linux systems administrator. I supported Linux for over 10 years professionally, and Solaris for many years before that. What do I use at home? Windows. Why? It works great, and when something does break, I'm not on my own, though admittedly, this is less and less of an issue. I have struggled with all of the GP's issues and more - at home. For years my friends laughed at me, but then I wised up and saw the light. Life is too short to waste 10 hours trying to get your VPN working with the one at work, and they won't help you because what you're doing is against policy.... Or I spent many, many hours trying to get my laptop running Mandrake 8.2 to work with my wireless PCMCIA card - good luck getting support for that, especially when the sole developer for the chipset I accidentally bought works on it part time when he moonlights from HP. But in Windows, it all just works right out of the box. Go figure.

Actually, having supported Linux for so long, I hesitate to say it's more powerful. I've seen many, many bugs, both in the kernel and outside. Especially in the early years, but I stumbled across another one just a few days back in AS4. The sort utility silently crashes when reading files with certain characters in just the right places. Some things never change.