>>12
There's POSIX compliant linux distributions. Therefore that alone does not suffice to conclude that which you concluded. The BSDs are not close enough for all purposes.
Your purposes, maybe. Not mine. Would you also suggest that GCC is ISO 9899:1999 compliant? It's not. Yes, for most purposes, you could use -std=c99 -pedantic and write working programs with most features of C99. But it's not compliant.
>>13
Agreed. Things like configuring an OS are really trivial compared to the work I do when it runs. Sometimes I go on IRC and chat with people to get my setup working, and I can't help but notice the irony of their elitist behavior telling me to read manuals and documentation, implying this will somehow benefit me, and not just waste my time.