Alternative OS

I'm not a duel booting kind of guy, I like to have a machine with an OS. Right now I have my PII-400 running Linux and my K6-500 is my Windows box. And I'm going to ad a BeOS box soon. Every chance I get, I use Linux over Windows, but their are no video production packages for Linux. I believe if Adobe After Effects was ported to Linux, and I could afford to buy it again, I would be able to drop Windows. I'd get am an Athlon-800 for Linux, throw BeOS on my K6-500 and drop Windows down to my PII-400 as a legacy machine.

So, what would it take for you to drop Windows? Or would you ever drop Windows? Maybe your happy with it. Better still has anyone dropped Windows yet and found a good package for another OS (not counting MacOS, its just as bad as Windows)?

I'm sure you 3D people would need Lightwave of MAX ported. But since SGI is now making Linux boxes maybe Maya (sp?) will be ported to Linux.

I look forward to do the day I can totally get rid of Windows, or MS makes a MUCH, MUCH better OS. Besides that, Linux is about as low budget an OS as you could get

Right now I have my Windows comp, my brother has a Windows comp, and we share a BeOS/Win comp. I'd like to get Linux on that last one, but the video card doesn't want to cooperate. Eventually I see myself moving away from Windows, except for that one nostalgic gaming machine.

I want to use BeOS as my video editing comp, but the only good editing package they have is a commercial one. I bought Premiere for Windows and I don't feel like dishing out more money for another NLE. The same goes for Linux. Linux has a few great 3D editing programs though, notably Blender.