Screw Linux, you really need to know what your doing to use that. I would suggest you go ahead and get a brand new vista and save the money u would spend getting a mac and buy a second monitar. Best setup!
It's really not that much different form windows or mac os. If you can use either one of those you'll have no problem using something like
Ubuntu Linux, and Linux has a slew a features that are better than windows.
Sure there is a small learning curve, but you'll cover most of it in a weeks time and there is a hell of a lot of documentation, forums and the such. I have solved any problem just typing it into google, not too hard. I think you forget how long it took you to learn how to use windows, a linux distro like
Ubuntu is a breeze.
patrick24601 said:
Linux would be my last choice. It has the fewest tools out of any of these if you want to get deeper into AM and start dabbling in development or in depth webdesign. And the tools you will find will be harder to install and maintain.
Actually many windows tools [like photoshop, and dream weaver] work on linux thanks to wine. If you do php Zend Studio or Eclips is great. It also sets up much better than windows for web development, because it's just like your server. Distros like
OpenSUSE have more os tools than I have ever seen in windows and I have been using microsoft operating systems hard core since dos.
In fact is pretty easy to install tools and they will automaticaly update [if there are linux tools and in the "repository"]. That's something you don't see on windows. Windows also tends to really slow down bad after a while.
On top of it - it's free and you no longer have to be a total nerd to use it, but you can get as deep as you want. But hey, keep eating that shit microsoft throws at you. :xmas-smiley-016:
