I just have to smile whenever I use an on-line software distribution system that “just works” to install or update a tool. CPAN, gems, darwinports, apt – these are things of beauty and I just love how something as simple as sudo gem update rails makes my life better.
No big heavy expedition to the Windows Update site, no conflicting packages, no restarting the system, no foraging through the directory structure to try and find the header file for libxslt.
Life is grand.