Or not. I can go into any store and pick out almost any hardware, plug it
in, and it Just Works(tm). No screwing around with chasing down drivers:
It either Just Works(tm), or rarely, Just Doesn't. I'm an NT
administrator: It's a pain in the ass to get hardware to work under
windows compared to Linux these days.

NT is old stuff. 2000 works great and XP knows all the hardware.