I have two computers at my desk at home. I primarily use Windows XP and I have no intention to upgrade to Vista any time soon. My other dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu. The Gimp is close, but not quite as powerful as Photoshop. The same with Inkscape compared against Illustrator except it's even buggier. I have Ubuntu on there only to experiment with software for work.
I'd be interested to know if anyone here only uses Ubuntu (no dual booting or second computers) and what they do on it. I used only Ubuntu for a little over a month as a personal experiment. When I reinstalled Windows, it was actually a breath of fresh air. No distribution of Linux is quite at the desktop level. It almost worked, but I needed Photoshop. Running Photoshop in wine or running it as under a VM just didn't make since. It also hampered my PC gaming. Beryl/Compiz, is great, but it's still buggy and is not quite, but almost, stable enough to run comfortably as a primary windows manager. I will admit however, that it's the best damn eye candy of any OS I know of.
At work, I have Slackware Linux on our server. For me, Linux is to a server as Windows is to a desktop and wouldn't have it any other way.
I hope to start working on building an OSX computer just for S&Gs, but haven't gotten along to it as of yet. I always liked Apple, but it never quite fitted in with all my needs. Plus they've always been overpriced.
Bah, I type too much.
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