>>15
It's been getting better recently in XP, but I still remember ME, which crashed randomly for no reason.
You're missing something here. WinME is the last Windows in the Win95 line, which was never stable and always sucked. Windows NT has been a high quality, stable OS since Windows 2000, and Windows XP is Windows 2000 "with stuff". Stuff you don't always need, BTW.
>>19
Regular users are unwilling to use the command line
True, but even those who use it, like me, find compiling and fixing others' code just to try some shit a waste of time.
Wizards where you have to click "next" for 2 minutes and have to make choices about which components to install also suck.
Not nearly as much if they're fast and don't deal with where's libSDL1.2.4 OMG I have 1.2.3 download more packages lol.