Yeh, gotta agree. Each to his own has it's advantage's/disadvantages and could be useful to some while useless to other's. And like MsMitten's stated, the quality of an OS depend's on the quality of the user. My Win98 box is extremely stable and work's very well, better than my friend Ryan's Redhat system. But hey, it's how you use it and what you do with it.

now that I've ordered an iPod Mini
Wow, really? Let me know how that is, I've wanted one for awhile but never got around to getting one. I heard they were awesome to listen to music with.