Best operating system?

Don't muddle up your own words. You said "try to run" as if it's impossible to launch the application. Linux is more than capable of launching & using it. It will obviously be less efficient, but then again, if your work depends on using Photoshop, you won't be using an OS that discourages you doing that, use some common sense.

@Your second comment - As mentioned, you wouldn't get an unsuitable OS if you depend on Photoshop. Or you would use an alternative / find a more efficient way of emulating it. I did say excluding games, yet you included that and as with everything else, there are workarounds for the BluRay issue.

You know what, I am heavily into photography and other art and you are partially correct, but truth is 80% of the time I am browsing on my computer, writing up documents, email, etc...that other 20% I am playing a game or using Lightroom/Photoshop on Windows(I run 2 computers through one screen with a KVM switcher).

Here is the thing for all of the above I prefer to use Linux because of the reasons I mentioned above before the flame war started. This is an OPINION thread, why do you guys both need to fight like children? Seriously...You prefer windows and thats fine, but you must realize you are not everyone and the majority of people I know don't use high end programs like Photoshop and would actually be quite fine on Linux(some of them are). I am not sure what you are on exactly about the burning of discs since I never had an issue with that in Linux but currently and don't plan on using Blurays for a long time.