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Whens the last time you installed a bunch of things on a linux box? I installed NVU lastnight by just clicking on a weblink..

Last weekend. I had to install a bunch of stuff -- and it wasn't pretty. It wasn't enough to install the RPMs. I had to dig through "docs" (quotes intentional) that were written by somebody with the literacy skills of a kindergartner. Then, I had to find a bunch of dependent tarballs on the Web (no links provided, of course). And then, after building, I had to deal with a cascading set of version incompatibilities. It took between 4 and 5 hours to do something that would have been effortless in Windows.

You're probably going to deny that people go through these kinds of problems with Linux. But, if you're honest with yourself, you know that this is commonplace.