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Lot of people give up on Linux based on past experience, but i do suggest you keep getting back to it and give it a fair go. Just like MS has imporoved so has Linux and other Unix variants.
For all its merit i must admit i never adopted as my main OS. I have used it for gateway/firewall systems. And i keep ubunut virtual image handy, for the odd times i need to run something in linux. Usually to help some student learning C/C++ in Unix/Linux environment. But i never went mainstreem with it. With all its problems Vista, XP, Win2k, Nt4, Nt3.51 have alwasy been my prefered choice. Except for the mad year i ran Win98 (while it was free for a year in beta).
Even now my Dragonfly Planet camera would work much better under Linux. As per Bird's advise, but i still cant bring myself to it. And the underlying reason is convineance. Everyone else i know uses it, and most of my life has been spent in the support of it (one way or another) and i just need to be on top of it. Using it day in day out keeps it real for me to understand user issues. If i had to support Linux (helped a few friends) i just run it up. Thankfully never had to support MACOs. Would not know where to start. But i do like its eycandy. By the way isnt MacOS now built on BSD (another Unix variant). I think that BSD base is part of the reason for it (From what i have heard) greater stability.
Linus and Bill and Steve (Wozniak) brothers, now what a story that would make. But as far as computer geeks go i would say those guys have more in common then not. An OS is an OS afterall, it has the same underlying purpose.
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