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I've used all these operating systems. Windows (3.1 to XP), Mac OS (9.1 to OSX 10.3) and OpenSuse Linux. These are just my opinions:
Windows: it works. though not all the time it can really annoy you with things that rarely plague other OSes like viruses and keeping your system clean and in tip top condition. but on a VERY big plus side, tones of software and games are available. haven't tried vista and don't intend to.
OSX: its nice and easy. everything flows, just how it should be and expect it to. they do put a lot of thought into engineering their interface so you know exactly where things should be and how to get things working. some nice desktop effects as well. i never saw what the big deal is with photo-editing and video editing on the mac. im currently interning at an advertising company, adobe photoshop is exactly the same as on windows. the way mac handles window sizes might make it marginally more efficient especially if yyou are running illustrator, photoshop and other programs back to back. oh, and it hardly crashes. so you dont have to save your work every 2 minutes like on windows (so i've heard. my windows hasnt crashed for 3 months or so)
linux: for what you are currently interested in. linux is way bottom of your list. you can run certain professional programs (using wine i think). but hardly efficiently. linux runs on unix and so does the mac, so they are both EXTREMELY stable. linux can do everything else the other systems can do. some it does better. some it does so bad its embarrassing. compiz/berly 3D effects are really cool though
hey. if you want to try ALL these OSes. just get a mac. you can install and run all these natively now. hope this helps
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