Name: Anonymous 2010-04-10 13:16
It's an OS where the files have no association to programs; all configuration files and settings are stored "wherever" in text files that grow to be several megabytes long; most shell commands are so abstractly named that you would never be able to use them without knowing how they work.. or first reading its "manual pages".
It is also an OS of inconsistency. There's over a thousand distributions of Linux, and over a billion different modified versions of it. Programs come shipped as source code that you must compile and configure yourself (by way of large scripts that attempt to figure out how your system is running.. since nothing is standard).
What I am trying to say is if you want to make full use of your hardware, then use Windows. If you want to waste days trying to get an alpha OS to work with hacked drivers and illegally reverse engineered applications (that are mostly written by ugly teenagers who would stop doing it once they get laid) then by all means use Linux.