I've been using Linux exclusively for about ten years now, and professionally for about eight.

I dual boot one of my machines into Windows XP for "studio mode". This is the first Windows I've used since Win95 service pack A - skipped Win98 and Win2k altogether. :)

It's not the platform, it's the software - yeah, Windows sucks ass, but Logic and Soundforge and Wavelab are not Microsoft products. If those softwares were available for Linux, I'd use them there, but really, it's not the OS that matters, it's the music.

I've fought the Linux vs. Windows battle *faaaaaar* too many times to care much anymore. Windows just isn't enough desktop computer for me - I don't use it to check email, or surf the web, or watch media, or chat, or work (especially work), but for music there's just better software available for Windows.