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[Windows]
For me it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm gaming then either XP or Vista. I run everything I care about on Vista for gaming so the XP side has seen only a small amount of activity. Unfortunately a feature in Roxio 6 that I REALLY like will not run in Vista...actually all of Roxio 6 won't run there...but that's another story. That feature never appeared in any later version of Roxio.
If the Windows 7 beta lasted longer I might mess with it but we're still a year or more away from it releasing and AFAIK MS still has not identified a date certain on which it will Windows 7 will RTM. I probably won't see Windows 7 for another 2 years in my development lab so I suspect my first contact will be at home.
So, for now, Vista is my "go to" on the windows side.
[Linux]
Centos...hands down. I started with RH5 (not to be confused with RHEL5). I've worked with Fedora Core (1-5), Debian, Mandrake, Slack and SuSE. All of my development work is done on Centos and FC. Why do I like Centos? It's easy to work with, it's secure, it's stable and anything it receives has already passed through Red Hat's forges. I work with well established hardware so "cutting edge" drivers are never an issue. What's not to like?
Everything I do on the Linux side is server-oriented so there's a very clear demarcation for me between Linux and Windows with no overlap.
From the perspective of accessibility, flexibility in configuration and recovery from errors and problems...Linux takes it hands down.
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