The universe may be loading, but my XP only takes 20 seconds to load... how long does it take your OSX?
Anyways, I used to hate XP and loved my W2K installation... but now I'm just too hooked on XP to go back... and I leave my system on for days... although I have to leave photoshop running constantly... for some reason it likes to crash when initializing the dual processor module for my hyperthreading cpu.
Personally, I like Red Hat better. And where's the fun in using the official version? Half the fun of Linux is screwing around with your OS (the other half is never crashing)
I have a hack of Debian/Knoppix. No, not the CDR version, but an install. I tried to install Mandrake and Suse, but they wouldn't work for some reason.