From linuxsucks.com:

"Linux is more of a social phenomenon than a useful OS. It seems to fulfill a deep-seated need in certain geeks and nerds to fiddle endlessly with incredibly arcane trivia on a daily basis just to get basic services to work. Somehow Linux users are convinced that all the alleged power and configurability of Linux is an advantage. Well it's not. I work almost exclusively with Fortune 100 firms who invest 10's of millions in enterprise applications which can make or break them. The last thing they need is a 35 year old OS which has been tarted up with 2500 or so command line utilities and bizarre political ideology. Unix certainly has a place. IBM has gone slightly bonkers recently in supporting Linux. The only reason for this is to counter Microsoft (it will backfire). IBM already has a vastly superior implementation of Unix in the form of AIX.

Most really large systems run on big iron. No flavor of Unix, and certainly not Windows, can provide the 365x24 99.999% uptime that a cluster of 390's, or possibly Compaq/Tandem NonStop, can accomplish with ease.

But, back to the world of smaller systems. Windows 2000 is so vastly superior to Linux in any conceivable situation that it boggles the mind how so many apparently intelligent people have been sucked in by the Linux propaganda machine.

Case in point: Today I installed Oracle 8.1.7 on both Windows 2000 Server and on a RedHat 7.1 box. The Win2K installation went flawlessly and there was no need to consult README files or anything else. I had Oracle running smoothly withing an hour. Linux, on the other hand, was a complete mess. The Oracle installer choked and died several times. After about 6 hours of scouring documentation from Oracle, RedHat and myriad other websites I finally managed to get Oracle partially installed, but Net8 is still completely kaput with no solution in sight.

StarOffice fared somewhat better and it is fairly impressive, although not even remotely as polished and powerful as Office XP.

The video drivers delivered with RedHat do not work properly on the brand new Compaq Proliant I'm using as a test bed. Many, many other things only half work or require extensive reference to documentation (no, I don't want to have to RTFM, I want to play softball with my kids!).

Kylix is pretty cool but in the end it is simply a weak version of Borland's excellent Delphi product. None of the other Linux development tools would be taken seriously by our corporate clients. Linux in general reminds me of my early days when I had to hack through 8086 assembler using an MS-DOS text editor and MASM 5.0. Man I could produce code that was blindingly fast, incredibly memory efficient and I had 100% control over the hardware--far more control than Linux gives you. Trouble is assembly language programming was a huge pain in the arse and nobody in their right mind would do it today. Linux people seem to like the retro stone-age aspects of their pet OS. Well, everybody needs a hobby I suppose. I just prefer skiing and playing hockey to sitting in front of a glowing CRT hacking Perl scripts until my skin starts to turn to pale white cheese.

So, basically Linux sucks. For small systems Win2K is far easier to install and administer, and development environments are light-years ahead.

For the average user Windows XP is 1000% better than any form of Linux. I can only imagine the torture that thousands of parents, girlfriends, relatives and friends are subject to after being convinced by a Linux-loving fanatic to put this mess on their own computers. Guys, if you want to wage pissing contests against each other with your silly little OS go right ahead. But let everybody else get on with normal life.

Ciao."