I installed Windows 2000 today on my desktop PC. The reason I did it is pretty lame. I want to mess around with music stuff and my Macintosh G4 doesn't have line out so its a pain in the arse to plug into my mixer. I mean, how could anyone think that you might use a Mac for doing music stuff.
As usual I find Windows frustrating. All the things I expect to work out of the box on Linux (like - err - keyboards and mice) don't work right (my USB keyboard's internal hub wasn't recognised and as a result my mouse which was plugged into my keyboard didn't work). Perhaps I'm a freak but stuff just works much smoother and easier under linux than under Windows or MacOS for me. On my laptop power management is much more reliable under Linux than under Windows. My Mac often struggles to notice my SCSI devices whereas my Linux boxes have no problems...
My friend Dan suggested I try playing with KaZaA - a peer to peer filesharing client. It uses the same client as MusicCity's Morpheus. Its really really cool - it seems to scale pretty well - right now there are over 500,000 users online sharing about 425,000GB of files. I downloaded the Buffy musical episode and the Simpsons I missed the other day. The niftiest feature is the ability to download the same file from multiple people at once. Theres a Linux client so once I get my machine running linux again (I need to get my hands on a reiser-compatible rescue disk).
I found a video of the infamouse Mankind vs Undertaker cage match and now I'm downloading the Harry Potter movie so I'm pretty satisfied with whats available there :-)
With Codeweavers getting Quicktime working under Wine, mplayer and ASFRecorder solving the windows media playing problem and now a client for a fairly decent p2p network it looks like Linux is coming of age as a media piracy platform :-)
Oh, the most annoying thing about windows is the lack of Emacs keybindings in IE.