Quote Originally Posted by Thebes View Post
Unfortunately, many applications I use (Live6, SoundForge, Adobe CS3, some Cad/Cam stuff) have no comparable linux replacement, so even if I dual boot in the future, all my 'work' will be done in XP.
Well, you may or may not know this, but more and more software gets ported to Linux all the time. Who knows what the future will hold? When I first started using debian (2001) I wasn't too happy with the variety of apps for Linux. But, that has changed considerably over the years.