The Achilles' Heel of Your Computer

The Achilles Heel in this case is the Windows operating system. Most drivers that I have had occasion to use with Linux are open source- which means any one with the courage to attempt it can change the driver to make it do what they think it should do. And most of them just work. In fact, I can not think of a single device driver I have used on Linux that has NOT worked, or one that has caused problems. I can list a whole lot of cases where Windows drivers did not work or caused system crashes...My understanding is that there is a fundamental difference between the way the Linux operating system uses drivers and the way the Windows system uses drivers, but I am not sufficiently versed in this area to say for sure. Obviously, the author and Vitaly Chipounov do not think there is much of a difference.

Call me a dreamer, but how about an OS that understands that drivers are risky and handles them in a way as to protect itself. I suppose this is too much to ask. We are only human and I suppose therein lies the problem.