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Looks like FUD can be used by both sides. I'm not a M$ fanboy. I use both Win7 & Linux. They're tools. I don't favor one brand of screwdriver for the same reasons. This article is so full of lies I don't know where to start. False. The only time a reboot is required is when the change affects the currently logged in user permissions or when a change to an in-use file is required. Linux acts in a similar way when applying patches. The changes are either applied immediately to files not in use or 'staged' for the next reboot for core system files. False. In my organization we've been mapping drive letters in the user space in our multi-user environments for at least the past 6 years. On 2k3 server/XP through 2k8 server/Vista configurations. All works perfectly fine. We always use the same 3 letters (of course others are available): O-Official, R-Restricted, S-Shared. All are available to each machine regardless of how many users are logged in at the same time. Damn, even my home network works fine mapping my two NAS shares to multiple users AT THE SAME TIME. Although I agree that hard-mapping A & B to a non-existent floppy drive is just plain stupid for a modern OS. Again false. No company "bets their future" on one technology. The phrase "all the eggs in one basket" comes to mind. I don't have time to pick out all the lies in this (old?) article but there are loads more. In fact, the whole article stinks like bullsh*t and is probably just troll-bait. Linux has one MAJOR downfall that WILL prevent it from going mainstream (if it hasn't killed it's chances yet). And that is OS fragmentation. (Android is just beginning to see this affect) If you install an app written for "MacOS" or "Windows", it will work on that platform. Try doing that for Linux and be prepared to answer way more questions than you should need to. 1) what distro? 2) what architecture? 3) what package type? 4) what package manager? etc. If Linux is to succeed, then the core upstream vendors (RedHat, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, etc.) need to get together and UNIFY the application installer spec. I shouldn't have to care if an app is distributed as a .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, or any other package types. Once the core vendors step in line, the rest of the downstream distros will also. I should just be able to download, click, and run. Until that happens, Linux will ultimately fail on the desktop.