Former. I haven't worked there for a year and have no ties to them.

And yes, I'll always admit that Microsoft's and Apple's own OS's have their problems, some of them requiring pretty arcane fixes. I scream at them all the time.

I'm just saying that, for a desktop OS, the fit and finish is better on Windows and OSX. Out of the box, there's less little "weird stuff" like that NTP issue I cited above, and fewer things that need fixing and adjusting.

I adore Linux for what it has always done well. I would personally never put a Windows server outside of a firewall. But despite the strides that Linux desktops have made, I still maintain a non-techie would be happier with OSX or Windows than Linux.

That Ubuntu distro still looks pretty nice, though. It did a Windows-style "automatic updates" thing right off the bat, quite smoothly. I intend to play with it some more.