Except when you're missing package X or dependency y. UNIX is designed to be a configurable, custom system. There's nothing wrong with that, but I believe him

Except when you're missing package X or dependency y. UNIX is designed to be a configurable, custom system. There's nothing wrong with that, but I believe him when he blames UNIX/Linux and the multitude of varying installs cause him the most grief. You can't pin it all on PHP.