On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:29 PM, dexen deVries wrote:

> the current hacker-unfriendlines of linux (a.k.a. `user
> friendlines') is the price paid for vide driver support.

perhaps in some vague philosophical terms, but certainly
that isn't any sort of actual engineering trade-off. you also
seem to be positing that linux scores highly on "user
friendly" measures, which seems wrong.