I just wanted to add a thought here, after reading these comments. May be somewhat OT, but just some thoughts.

First off, just so you know, my preferences are pretty much any *nix (I'm better with RH Linux or Solaris 7/8), using a nice mix of Emacs/Vim depending on what I do.

However, I also have a fairly extensive knowledge of Windows. More than I'd like, but enough to know how to get around and do the things I want to do to make it run (closely) to how I want it to run.

As much as we have talked about the strengths of different languages in the past, I'm surprised that people lean so far from Windows. Yeah, to those of us who know what we're doing, *nix systems are a wonderful way to go, and I'd die without my command line (which is much of why I disliked Macs pre-X).

However, even as much as I disliked Macs and feel like I have little-to-no power in Windows, I took some time to learn each, in the instance that I have no choice but to use one of these machines, learning the subtleties like Macs click/hold versus left-click/right-click.

It's the same reason that I took driving lessons when I was a kid in both an automatic and a manual. I never knew if I'd be stuck where I had to drive a manual in an emergency, and I actually knew someone who did get stuck with only a manual, a medical emergency, and no knowledge of a clutch. (Ironically, I like manuals more, could make a Unix analogy that Manual is the only way to go *rimshot*).

I sincerely hope that this isn't seen as a rant - but it's good to know about various tools available, even if most flavors of Windows are more suited to playing around.

~Brian