2008 what OS do i Go for

recently i did the whole lets decide the future of my OS situation this included Linux "multible versions 23 at last count", going MAC, xp 32bit, xp 64 bit, vista ultimate 32bit, and vista ultimate 64bit first off Linux was a No, i Had too much hardware that didnt love linux, and most of my customer base is Not Linux, so going fully linux would = death to my careerHowever It will always be on the table for companys i set up and support them in itMac was off the table even quicker than Linux, because it was too expensive, and certain options are pretty unfamiliar, like how does one get 6 1 terabyte hard drives into a mac, i figured out that if i bought the power user tower that costs way too much i can mod it a little and stick 6 1tb hard drives in it but the costs are way too muchthen windows XP, good ol reliable, well it is now, not very user friendly for newbees, but i tend to set it up so it is, which can take 2 to 4 hours per machine, and has been what i have been doing for years for all my customers, and have only had 1 complaint from a person whos brain was the size of a marble, and equally thickthe prob was more and more games, and newer technologys only run on vista, and 64bit xp is useless for any perfomance boost, especially when i have 4gb of memory in the systemthe end result was lets try a vista 64bit Ultimate, big no no, getting codecs to work, about as simple as trying to nail jello to a wallso after about 8 hours of trying to get shit to work i go to do my vista 32bit thing, far less time to get things working a-Ok, loving the onboard dvd burning software had no problems with it so far, far more efficent than nero, but alas for certain programs I need nero installed Blah, so off i go I install Neroinstant issues with nero, lots of people do have nero issues, with xp, but vista actually tells you its neros fault, i do the updates Nero still very pushybut moving on, after i got it semi sorted, I try out office 2007, awesome, try burning 40 data dvds in a row, No problem did it in 1 3rd the time of nero, and this is still an IDE dvd r/w, did the funky optionsPrettythen bang, a Huge Blow, none of my games work not a single one, eventually figured out that the 7900 and 7950 graphics cards have issues with the latest drivers for vista, so i have to downgrade the graphics to a far older driver then yea i can play team fortress 2, but some of the newer games i am too scared to try, because of there issues with not working at all unless you have the newest Beta DriversLater a week or 2 later, a friend of mine who has made vista dual boot before, had come down to do a dual boot for meend result, 2 dead hard drives, no clue how he did it, but he did, and getting vista back to where i had it, is so painfully long, even more so than how far i get xp to where i use it, or any other O/S so back to XP i goall i can really say about my vista experience if you have all new kit, and bought a good dx10 graphics card, go vistaif you have older pc kit, stay XP64bit avoid all together for a year, on vista, avoid forever on xp unless you dont ever plan to watch movies on your computer if your going to do specific types of work, care nothing for games, and dont need mass amounts of storage, and your neat freak like me, go macif your a rebel go linux, if your a rich rebel, defo go linux Personally the whole Vista Experience reminded me of the time, i got a pc, many years ago, and all you could get was win 2000, me or XP, Me for buget computers, xp for everything else, and 2000 on special order, i stuck with win 98 for 2 more years more than anyone else till the kinks where worked outi feel a similar situation with vista, because unlike people i knew who had xp or vista since day 1, i dont have the time to arse about or putting up with consistent problems