As an overall package in terms of usability, hardware compatibility, software development Windows is still king for the desktop. 32bit is XP territory, 64 bit is Vista. OSX I see nothing really special about - mutton dressed as lamb, you pay a lot of money for limited hardware options and limited upgradeability. It's stable because it never has to deal with constant change. Linux is a lot better in the aspect that its free and it's constantly evolving. It's hardware support is still limited but by nature it's designed to be deployable on any config. It's at stage where there are specific situations I'd use linux - a NAS, a torrentbox, a a small home server. It's just not a full desktop replacement ATM.
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