Which operating system do you use, and why?

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Game_boy said:

I'll agree with anyone who's prepared to explain in detail why their choice is theone they use, but respect and constructively criticize others' choices. You are correct, things often don't just work in Linux, that's the most frustrating bit.

I disagree about the bells and whistles. Have you seen Beryl?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/GnomeVista.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Beryl_transparent_cube_Feisty.png

Remind you of anything?

The problem is, that windows manager is in beta, and like much open source software, I doubt it will ever get out of beta.  If you were to try and run it on a system much different than that on which it was developed, chances are you'll run into trouble.