macintoshman, you sound as if you have been scarred by Linux.

While your experience may have been unsatisfactory, please understand that there are hundreds (indeed thousands) more for whom Linux has been quite satisfactory and useable. You are certainly entitled to your own opinions, and no one can doubt your particular experience if you say it is so, but please don't think that it is the same for everyone else. Everyone else is also entitled to their opinions and have their own experiences with Linux. To assume that everyone else has exactly the same expectations for use that you do is arrogant and short sighted. It is patently untrue. If it had any truth at all, Linux simply wouldn't exist.

Peace,

Drew