[blattimwind]

> People just putting their windows computers to sleep for months on end causes all kinds of weird shit to happen in windows

Not just Windows, Linux/BSDs have problems, too, because just like Windows they tend to clean up temporary files only on reboot / relogon. Though Windows in particular had a number of issues where it would fill up the entire system drive, no matter how big, if you let it run long enough (related to not cleaning up extremely verbose log files and a couple problems with Windows Update).

> Windows has all kind of wierd driver issues, random shit that happens with some hardware.

Recent 1-2 years of nVidia drivers seem to generally lack in stability, with many people reporting frequent driver resets and outright game crashes esp. on Windows 7 and 8. Linux drivers aren't in a particularly convincing state, either. Issues with dis/reconnect displays, suspend/resume issues, 3D application hangs, hardware video crashing drivers (an issue on both OSes) etc. etc.