They're not really all that good, certainly not ubiquitous.
You have to be Administrator, and there's no GUI way of creating one. Most applications probably don't understand symlinks - if you delete one that points to a directory, does it recursively delete the directory's contents or just delete the symlink? What about infinite loops? Is there a built-in way to resolve a path containing symlinks to the "real" path?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
