I think you are reading into my stance as defending Linux -- I am not. I am just saying you have to take this criticism into perspective, and consider the alter

I think you are reading into my stance as defending Linux -- I am not. I am just saying you have to take this criticism into perspective, and consider the alternatives. I find the clamours for the <insert "beautiful" other OS here> equally useless, as they haven't had the success linux has had in the server world, and because of that, I don't care how much more "elegant" another solution is -- it doesn't have the body of work to back it up. Linux is, for now, the best option. If it's a "tangled mess of code" let's figure out how to make it better. After all, it is open source.