Why isn't Linux funny?
Stop me if you've heard this one.
How many Windows programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. They've declared darkness a standard.
A Microsoft Office product manager told this to me years ago on the company campus in Redmond. I was reminded of it when reading comments to Michael Horowitz's blog last week about how difficult it is to update his browser on his distribution of Linux compared to updating software on Windows. He said the Linux update process had four strikes against it. As a baseball fan, I thought it was an amusing observation. (He's since upped the ante to six, enough to strike out two Linux distributions.)
Linux users were not amused. The problem, they argued fervantly, was not with the update process but with Horowitz. Linux fans are so darn serious about everything. You can't utter a word of doubt about their favorite operating system's superiority without facing their wrath.
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