Ranting about Windows and Linux

This is the list of software that I use and they don't come all in the same OS therefore renders me incapable of using only one OS.

For browsing I use Opera and Firefox. Both come on windows and linux.

For IM I use WLM and Empathy. WLM is pretty but bloated, comes only for M$. Empathy is very simplistic but comes only for Linux.

For Media Players I use SMPlayer and Windows Cinema Classic. SMplayer comes for both but I'd really like just to use Cinema Classic which is only for windows.

For Music I use Foobar2000 and Audacious. I wish I could just use Foobar but it only comes for windows. Therefore I have to use audacious on linux. With Foobar I can use the Now Playing status message on WLM, with audacious there are Pidgin plugins but they don't work. Also I don't use Pidgin, I use empathy.

Office Suite I don't give a crap. Anything works for me.

Games: StarCraft, StarCraft 2, Warcraft3, Counter Strike 1.6, Diablo 2. They run only on windows xp and only SC2, WC3 and CS run on Windows 7. Linux has no cool, stable games.

I use Gimp and Inkscape. They work well on both OS.

I use GuitarPro, Reason, Amplitube, Sonar. GuitarPro latest release was also ported to linux but for the others there must be windows.

mp3tag is such a great tagger and renamer to be left out of linux. However there is Audio Tag Tool for linux but it is not good enough. For renamers there is pyrenamer (linux) and advanced renamer (win)

Sure we can all argue that viruses are common for windows and hard but not impossible for linux. I don't care about it much. But sure, I like that I feel secure with the penguin.

I like how gnome looks (gnome 2 that is). I hate how Windows looks. I hate all that transparent glassy sh!t. I am right now looking for packs to style up windows to match my taste. However M$ makes sure that it is hard for me to get it because otherwise people would start thinking windows is not that good. I am looking for Linux/Ubuntu packs. They are of course, resource hungry (just like most themes). Which takes me to my next point: native stuff that comes in linux that windows lacks (I tried to think of the opposite case but found none.)

With Linux I have several workspaces. With Windows I have one.

With Linux I have Compiz and a wide variety of cool, sometimes not so smooth effects. In Windows I have smooth but boring effects. I don't really effects other than the expo, ALT TAB with preview and the one in which all the open windows line up so that I can see them all at the same time but in miniature.

I MUST have one panel for menu's and launchers and another for the windows list and notifications. Windows only has one taskbar, with linux up to 4. Docks are too retarded and resource hungry.

I hate my life in which I have to choose one or another. The only that contents my heart for now is to have 2 pc's on. One running linux and one running windows 7, whilst I must keep my old laptop with windows xp for the days when I want to play starcraft and diablo 2.