Well, I'm smart enough to know that Unix was designed more robustly than DOS and Windows - but, in my own experience, found that fear of the non-robust nature of Windows made me stupid when using Windows. I don't enjoy feeling stupid, so I bought a Unix box which wasn't designed for geeks. Which is what the OS X version of the Mac is, and what Linux would like to be. And apparently Win 7 is pretty much there too, finally. Which is good, because my daughter's husband wanted to get her a Win 7 box for her birthday and I chipped in to help buy it, confident that it was a workable computer.
I concur. Apple couldn’t write an os that was worth anything so they finally ripped one from UNIX. XP is still the number one os serving in a period that it truly isn’t meant for. That was some seriously good os for its day.
Bug win 7 is definitely the way to go for windows.