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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker
the OS isn't *that* important, applications are, and many applications for UNIX just plain suck.
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I agree with this 100%, but my complaints about that are well known here.
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You can switch users in XP, I assume Vista has a similar feature
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That's still a single user. What I mean is that you cannot have someone sitting at an XP box doing work, and connect to that box from another computer as a different user (using remote desktop or some such). That is not allowed. Single user only. I presume the server versions are not like that.
On the larger topic of what to do when the OS does not support something what you want, there are also the options of waiting until it is fixed (which does happens -- VMware or VBox will make it one of these days to FreeBSD) or working around it. I have enough computers that I keep some windows boxes running. Then I don't really need a VM, though it would be nice. Flash9/Firefox/Wine also works OK, though it is no replacement for a Linux version and lpw.