If you’re going to sound like a pretentious twat, I think “The ignorant masses know naught of these things” is difficult to beat.

What a load of cowpat.

The UI is hard to customize.

— No it’s not, but so what?

Drivers in windows vista are too difficult. In Linux all my devices “just worked”.

— what, *both of them?

Driver updates from windows update made my laptop less stable, not more stable

— differs from Ubuntu in oh, so many ways

Backwards compatibility Hardware: too old out of luck

— time to revisit the dumpster

Software: What? I can’t run old versions of Microsfot SQL Server on Vista?

— time to download the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server. You know; it’s like apt-get. Except it doesn’t break things. And I’m sure you were a real fan of SQL Server in the first place.

Absolutely no package management

— err…

My personal user experience Lack of good cmdline tools

— bullshat. As if it mattered.

Lack of a good SSH Client

— bullshat. If you really need it, xming and putty work fine. Four months, and the loon prefers to piddle around with xconfig rather than spend half-an-hour on the Web and five minutes clicking on an MSI?

What a loser.

Well, apparently, this (http://blog.indigio.com/vistakonsole.jpg) is meant to convince the world.

I’m sorely tempted.

I hear so often that Windows would lack a good SSH client. There’s just one thing I wonder about it. Why would Microsoft boundle a SSH client?
They offer WinRM for Windows<->Windows administration, which is using HTTP and SSL, and in my opinion technically superior anyway.
Let that be as it will, you can hold multiple concurrent sesssions and use them from one terminal session using powershell with WinRM/RS.

I don’t see why MS would offer SSH now.

btw, xming is kinda old imo. I prefer VcXsrv recently: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv . It’s based off the Xorg Git, got hardware acceleration and similar features and literally works out of the 'box’.