I'm a bit reticent to start this thread - I don't want to start a windows-bashing competition - the title's a joke. But it might help us from and -ing other threads....

I personally set up all my machines as dual boot Windows XP and Fedora. I mainly live and work in Fedora, and boot into windows when I need to use platform-specific software as part of my work.

I like windows, things do "just work". But then a lot of hardware seems to me to be designed and supported for this platform, so perhaps it's not suprising that this is the case.

Fedora, and Linux in general, agree with my "commie", or rather "socialist", principles (these are my principles - if you don't like them, I have others....), and I like the challenge of getting everything set up and working properly. I also love command line stuff, and grew up on Unix.

James.