So, does it strike anyone else as the first time "I'm X" makes any sense? You can't be Mac or Windows...because Apple and Microsoft will sic a pack of highly trained attack lawyers on you, if you try. But with Linux you really can be a part of it. Anyone who has ever helped someone on a mailing list is Linux (where "Linux" is as good a mascot for the overall Open Source experience as anything). Anyone who has submitted a patch to their favorite project is Linux. Anyone who has burned a copy of a Ubuntu or Fedora or CentOS or Debian for a friend to try out is Linux.<p>There are many things you can say about Linux that aren't flattering (m0nty covered them sufficiently already, and though I disagree with many of them, or feel like it's unfair without following up with, "Of course, both Mac and Windows also have an equal or greater number of seriously irritating quirks and flaws, but I already know how to work around those so I don't complain about it."), but Linux is a community, a movement, and a set of freedoms and capabilities that Apple and Microsoft simply can't deliver on. Linux and Open Source is so vastly over-powering in that regard, that it's...umm...I dunno...astonishing to me that so many folks focus on the little nits (without actually doing anything to fix them--since with Linux, you actually have that power). If Linux were less capable than the alternatives, I would understand it better...but there are so many things I do in Linux every day, that would be impossible, require a huge investment in third party tools, or otherwise simply not be as nice on Windows or Mac OS X.