Agreed. I dual boot Linux on two machines and I quite like it and to have a play with it, but at the end of the day what you have said is so true. Some applications are windows only, and if you need those specific applications, then there is your answer. And on top of that Linux won't even install on one of my machines, which ran Vista x64 and now W7 x64 perfectly.
Anyone use Linux as there main Operating System
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Agreed. I dual boot Linux on two machines and I quite like it and to have a play with it, but at the end of the day what you have said is so true. Some applications are windows only, and if you need those specific applications, then there is your answer. And on top of that Linux won't even install on one of my machines, which ran Vista x64 and now W7 x64 perfectly.
I've got 3 Linuxes and 2 Windowses on my RAID-0. I don't use any of them because I like it (it's not old AmigaOS to be liked 
) , but due to special capabilities that each one represents for me. So Linuxes are for web development and sometimes for BitTorrents (security reason), they are much more useful in my home LAN than Windows - I mean file sharing. Printing is "as is", better on Windows, but it's not what I got used to have under AmigaOS years ago (!) having TurboPrint - believe me or not, but decent printer drivers for PC are terrible in some points (like black ink dithering and grayscales, for example). Of course, during work under Linux everything else is to be configured to work like under Windows (like software to use - to play music, watch video, VNC, mailers, communicators, OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity etc etc, even VirtualBox).. and having shared folders there's no real difference which OS I use - because tools are the same, just path representation for files look different 
Why do I hve 3 Linuxes ? 1st is "main", second "spare" just in case (and 64-bits, to watch compatibility), and third is Ubuntu - to learn DEBs
Windows 7 is for gaming.. not too often, unfortunately. And XP is for compatibility with old software, like NERO which doesn't work under 7. Or for more smooth gaming
So - I use all accessible tools for my needs, some of them are fulfilled better here, some of them - there. Habits
) , but due to special capabilities that each one represents for me. So Linuxes are for web development and sometimes for BitTorrents (security reason), they are much more useful in my home LAN than Windows - I mean file sharing. Printing is "as is", better on Windows, but it's not what I got used to have under AmigaOS years ago (!) having TurboPrint - believe me or not, but decent printer drivers for PC are terrible in some points (like black ink dithering and grayscales, for example). Of course, during work under Linux everything else is to be configured to work like under Windows (like software to use - to play music, watch video, VNC, mailers, communicators, OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity etc etc, even VirtualBox).. and having shared folders there's no real difference which OS I use - because tools are the same, just path representation for files look different Why do I hve 3 Linuxes ? 1st is "main", second "spare" just in case (and 64-bits, to watch compatibility), and third is Ubuntu - to learn DEBs
Windows 7 is for gaming.. not too often, unfortunately. And XP is for compatibility with old software, like NERO which doesn't work under 7. Or for more smooth gaming
So - I use all accessible tools for my needs, some of them are fulfilled better here, some of them - there. Habits
Not Linux but I was using Solaris 10 for a while. Seeing as I'm now back into gaming, I'm on to Windows 7 for my primary OS...
I've used various Linux distributions as a primary OS several times, though. Usually when I've had to do lots of stuff I preferred to test at home before implementing at work
I've used various Linux distributions as a primary OS several times, though. Usually when I've had to do lots of stuff I preferred to test at home before implementing at work