I've loved Linux for a while, but needed to stay in Windows for the Adobe apps (Illustrator, most notably). I just made the switch to Ubuntu about a month ago.

I've loved Linux for a while, but needed to stay in Windows for the Adobe apps (Illustrator, most notably). I just made the switch to Ubuntu about a month ago. Now when I need to run Illustrator, I just fire up a VM and boot Windows. I'm using Virtualbox for the ease of use and its "seamless integration" feature. The Adobe products are a bit slow reading from/writing to Ubuntu shares, but the gain in productivity I get from having Linux for everything else more than makes up for it, and I can dedicate 4G of RAM to the VM so Illustrator & Photoshop can still run fast side by side without slowing the primary OS down a bit.