It suffers froms the "CD/DVD-drive dissapeared from my system list and is not possible to get back there in any way"-bug (not one person I know that has experienced this bug, and believe me they are many, has been able to reinstall the drivers and fix the corrupted keys in the registry unless they have had system recovery activated and rolled-back the OS to a time before this bug occured (only to re-experience it in a not to distant future).
I work tech support 3 months of the year and I've actually had something quite the reverse happen much more often: network adapters that won't go away (and you're trying to remove them to solve a different problem).
There's a whole plethora, a whole WORLD of NT commands under there that are just as obscure as Linux when it comes to fixing things that are broken. "netsh int reset" (or something along those lines) will refresh the registry entries for the network adapters in your current system hardware profile.
Then there's the registering/unregistering of services, fixing COM+ errors, etc.
If it wasn't for the Microsoft Knowledge base, I'd say you are in a WORSE position trying to fix a freaky Windows problem as opposed to a Linux one. And even then, I still maintain Linux is much easier to fix since things are easier to isolate (less integrated).
The best thing about XP over Win9x (as a replacement for the home desktop) is certainly the system log. It makes troubleshooting a LOT easier.
I can't wait for Linux to become more common on the corporate desktop. At the same time, I don't think anyone truly believes that Linux is easier for joe user at home.
