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I support about 200 XP (decreasing) and about 300 Win 7 (increasing) at work. Win 7 can be made MUCH easier by typing 'UAC' (User Access Control) into the box then minimising the slider. As long as you are the admin for the OS it then becomes quite user friendly and only annoys you now and then with security prompts.
Took me a while to get used to Win 7 but having built just about all 300 in the company and fixed, reimaged, loaded drivers, tweaked etc I am now quite happy with it.
I think your biggest issue may be finding drivers etc for some of your gear and that is where XP is so good. It has been around a long while and is almost universal.
My one experience with Vista was not good, overly protective and slow. Win7 is a lot better in that regard and pretty stable now at SP1 and 97 updates.
Linux\Ubuntu\Puppy Linux etc I have used and good for some tasks for sure but not for me as a standard desktop.
Win 8 I have seen and played with. Apparently it is just really another overlay on Win7 (which is an overlay on XP ) but with more focus on tablet and touch screen capability.
My Win7 64 bit Media PC at home has this as a access desktop called screen tap I think.
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