I'm afraid that its ease of use impedes the whole "learning to be a hacker" process I have extensive graduate training in the art of building transistors from

I'm afraid that its ease of use impedes the whole "learning to be a hacker" process I have extensive graduate training in the art of building transistors from raw silicon. I guess I'm some sort of god in your world. :) In my world, however, building transistors from raw silicon is an esoteric skill that doesn't have much use. Most of us prefer to spend a few bucks to buy our transistors by the billion, because transistors are a solved problem. And I'm happy to use Ubuntu and the Mac to actually get things done, rather than pretend that repeatedly fixing bugs in the Slackware installer represents a valuable form of education.