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Here's an example for you - 2 cars, one is locked with the windows up, the other is unlocked with the windows down, both in the dealer. Do you buy the locked one because it's currently residing in a "more secure" statet? Is it REALLY the cars fault?
You overgeneralize and select bad examples.
If you want to turn operating systems into cars, the sports car windows XP comes without key or locks. But you can find a transparent bag inside the trunk for installing these for free, the manufacturer just thought that it's customers might not like locks and keys. You also don't find the installation manual in your car's manual, instead you need to visit the factory of the manufacturer with your car, to access the Knowledge Base.
The family sedan Windows Vista instead stops the car at every crossroad, asking you if you want to cross the road. The work around requires you just to remove a circuit breaker, which is hidden behind the instruments.
Linux on the other hand is a box of car parts, coming usually with enough parts for building a whole fleet of cars in all performance levels. The problem is that the assembly instructions for most cool models have missing pages, requiring you to become member of the sacred guild of Linux drivers to over come them. The only complete instructions are for a LAV, with a tiny 4 piston engine mumbling under the hood.