I just read Jordans article about "The Myth of the Bad Ubuntu Release", and I thought to myself, everytime the same crap.

Let’s start to play a bit MythBusters:

1. MS Windows is rock solid!
   Oh well, let me tell you a story, which happend to me two days ago. I had the task to fetch some logfiles from two Windows 2003 Webedition servers. When I connected via rdesktop to those machines and checked the size of those logfiles, I thought to myself: "Hell, 4GB over to an rdesktop share takes too much time, I’ll zip them and download then". Selected the files, added to the zip, said maximum compression and go. 4GB textfile zipping took about 15 minutes, on a dual intel Xeon machine. Well, after 2 minutes, rdesktop just threw me out from the machine, because Windows thought, I wouldn’t do anything on this machine. Well, reconnected, after 2 more minutes the same. "Rock Solid is something else" I would say. SSH Sessions to all my Unix Boxes and especially to Linux Boxes never threw me out from the system, when compressing files. Even with an IO load higher then the Mount Everest. Result of this: Server broke, application crashed.
   I could write about more "Windows Rock Solidness", and I know when my colleague is reading that story now, he will laugh about it, because he always tells me, that "\sh + Windows == Bad Karma == Crash ==> #fail"
2. Linux Kernel X which is used in Distro Y doesn’t support my hardware Z anymore, I hate Linux.
   Right, even a Linux Kernel needs to clean up old cruft at sometime. "But But But…Windows". Hey, *tock tock*, Windows neither supports a Smart Array Raid Controller out of the box, nor some standard SATA and ATA controllers of Desktops Machines. You rely on drivers sold by the manufacturer. And even then, take as an example ATI, they would remove support for older cards over time. Yeah, that sucks, but it’s true. Why should the Linux Kernel behave different? 
3. Linux Distro Y does have a boot time of 10 minutes on my Cyrix 486! Way too long! I hate you!
   Honestly, that’s true. Running DOS 5 + Windows 3.0 does boot a lot faster, well DOS does boot faster, Windows 3.0 is just a simple application. Windows XP, Vista or 7 wouldn’t even run on such a machine anymore, you should be lucky, Linux does.
4. Linux Distro U. copies Windows every time more and more. I just hate you more!
   Oh well, but this is actually what you wanted, isn’t it? In the past, you just screamed at Linux, because it’s soooo difficult to work with. Now, at least one Desktop Distro Dictator was thinking about you, user, and changed the behaviour from "difficult" to "brainless". Right, for old distro farts that is extreme. I hate you, Linux Distro U.
5. My DVD can’t be read by Linux!
   Yes, again, this is true. But do you know why? Because MS pays a lot of license fees to the Media Industry to support this. You get your stupid Linux Kernel and Linux Distro for free, I repeat, You don’t pay anything for it, so why should something given away for free pay a license fee, that you can watch DVD?
   Instead of complaining here, complain to the Media Industry, that they don’t give you the right to play your legally bought property anywhere you want, or, if you would like to pay for a Linux Distro, pay for it, I think especially Company C. would be glad to fork Ubuntu and give you what you want for some hundred bucks (for the license fee).
6. Linux Distro is too complicated!
   Right, that’s true….for you. You know, between your shoulders there is something like a head, and inside your head, there is something called "Brain". This device named "Brain" is the "CPU + FlashROM" of your body. You read, you learn, your brain will save those things. Even Windows user do have such a device, but somehow they forget to use it. My thought on this is: Windows is too colourful, and your brain can’t focus on the important things. You should be the boss of your OS, but do you really, I mean really, know what your Windows OS does exactly do under the hood? Right, you don’t know it, you don’t even care about it, you just want to use it, you just want to consume.
   But Linux was never invented for being a consumable. Linux Distro R. isn’t a consumable OS too, but Linux Distro U. is going to be a consumable. In no time, you don’t need to use your device "Brain" anymore, because then, Linux Distro U. is so colourful, so mouse compatible, so easy, that you forget that it’s really a complicated piece of software.
   So this myth is really true. Linux Distro R. and U. are too complicated, please fix this.
7. You are so mean to me, you suck!
   Yes, true, and why shouldn’t I be mean to you? You complain, you consume, you don’t do anything for making all this more easy. I don’t consume, I don’t complain when something breaks, because I try to use my "Brain" device and try to workaround those things. You do it on Windows, too. If something breaks, you reboot your Windows, and I look into the source. Your fix is nofix, my fix is "a fix" or a "bugreport" to someone who could possibly fix this problem.
8. I hate you!
   Ok, I hate myself, too. No Deal. But you know, if you are not satisfied with all this Linux Crap, why do you actually use it? You don’t have the money to buy Windows? Why don’t you copy it from your neighbor then? Oh that’s not legal, right. So you just use a Linux Distro because it doesn’t cost anything? No? Ah, your friend in school told you, that Linux Distro is much cooler then Windows…did he tell you, that a Linux Distro is complicated? That a Linux Distro consists of many many many different opensource software packages, which are always buggy? No? Hate your school mate then, not me.
    

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