Fwd: [Contributors] Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:35 PM -0400 jludwig 
<wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:

> Control of the system is complete with Linux, unlike MS systems, and this
> is  not apparent unless you worked with these systems where unusual
> issues, or  problems have arisen. On a Linux system terminal you can
> directly work on the  system and programs as root without any controls
> form the operating system.

Another issue is visibility. When something isn't working right, I can see 
all the code down to the bare hardware. (I'm of course excluding 
proprietary drivers such as nVidia's.) I can identify problems myself at 
the source level and the developers have been great about fixing the issue 
or accepting a patch and getting me up and running quickly.

Right now I'm coding in the MS world and I curse every time I run into the 
"source wall" of the OS or a proprietary driver for which I have no source, 
and can't do more than try to create a reproducible crash.