Do you understand your operating system?
rbanffy: I care and I think I pretty much get what's going on under the hood of my Linux boxes as they seldom surprises me. OTOH, it's a complex system, with stack upon stack of hardware, firmware and software that makes really groking it (as I did with my Apple IIs in the early 80's) next to impossible. Even before the OS loads, an x86 PC is a very complicated animal.As for the Windows notebook I am typing this in, it never ceases to amaze me and surprise me in almost always frustrating ways. It's indeed a box full of magic, but I am not sure its genies always work for me rather than against me.I have tried a couple times to move to FreeBSD, but I always got frustrated with, what I perceived, a purist view of what a Unix machine should be - clean, simple and somewhat bare. I kind of like the magical things that happen in Linux, particularly package management. I utterly dislike the way it handles wireless networking, but I guess this is a feature nobody got right.