Every OS has its own style to handling errors.
Windows often stares into the distance and says nothing unless you know where to look; kind of like a Malamute that we had that would seem to suddenly go deaf if you told it something she didn't want to hear - I learned to watch it's ears, they would twitch or swivel.
With Linux, you get a response, but it is often of the "I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you do that."
