I knew the Leopard vs Vista post would spark a discussion. The top 10 list (THANKFULLY) never made it to Digg or Slashdot. Even so, Don Mitchell made the following outlandish remarks which I… well, just read what he wrote in the comment thread:

Apple is great at design, but not especially good at operating system kernels. They gave up on their in-house OS and fell back on UNIX, an operating system that is woefully obsolete today.

The perfect PC would have an Apple UI and shell, with the Windows NT kernel and DirectX for advanced 3D graphics and games. NT’s kernel is still considerably more advanced than any version of UNIX, with kernel threads, fibers, events, completion ports, asynchronous I/O, multiple heaps, and a collection of concurrency control features. Some of these features have been kludged into UNIX in recent years, but it was never designed to do these things.

The PC should also be an open hardware platform like the Windows PC is, but the Mac is not. I should be able to select from different competing hardware vendors, or pull out my nVidia graphics card and install an ATI card if I so desire.

Oh god, Dan… where do I begin to point out just how FUCKING stupid you make the rest of us look?