I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.