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1) could be a running gag. If you know it you know it, if you don't why not learn it? 2) mushed together /bin, /sbin/, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin/ usr local Well yes that may be hard to get if you exectubables are scatterd around as in windows in every other directoy. what a "big" difference 3) Yes DLl-Hell never ever has happened to Windows users - never 4) Oh yes it's better to have on registry and nobody knows which is for what. And if the registry is broken the whole system does not even run any more - yes that sounds as if that would be much better.. And no there is no graphical frontend for whatever in webmin. 5) Shell script are programs, and you can use them for scripting. what problem do you have with that? 6) So AFAIKT it runs here without troubles and update/upgrades are just an apt-get upgrade away. 7) Teh IT backbones are servers and most servers run under Linux. That should give you a hint.

You arguments are none. They are just your opinion which is not backed by any knowledge. So welcome in the land of good-doers.

Reliability is a word that Windows users have just learned the last few Windows incarnations. Long running servers are usual with Unices that's hardly the case for any Windows.

And for Windows nearly all malware works. But hey who needs reliability if it's all that nice and colourful




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