Wow, I thought it was just me. In life I'm pretty laid back--it generally takes a lot before I get riled up by another person. But trying to get something done and running into dumb bugs in bad software makes me rage. I don't rage at my own code though, like he suggests--at worst it's just embarrassing. No, I only rage at other people's bugs. And only when I'm not in a position to debug or fix it (proprietary binaries, web apps, etc).
I think that's why I find my Debian system so comforting. Despite things often going wrong I feel secure using it because no matter what goes wrong I can get the source and fix it (well, within reason--I still can't figure out why my %$#@! sata disk drives randomly hang up for multiple seconds at a time).
What motherboard and chipset do you have? My brother began experiencing similar random hang-ups when he added a second hard drive to his C2D E8400 system running Vista.
Interesting, that is my biggest annoyance on Vista, too. I wonder if there might be a problem with SATA that users have been attributing to Vista or other OSes.
I think that's why I find my Debian system so comforting. Despite things often going wrong I feel secure using it because no matter what goes wrong I can get the source and fix it (well, within reason--I still can't figure out why my %$#@! sata disk drives randomly hang up for multiple seconds at a time).