Anders Andersson wrote:

> Why do you even care about a winblows version anyway? =)
> I thought all serious people already learned that if you happen to have a
> PC, you should run Linux, not windows! :)

I run both on my home machine. For some reason, the soundcard picks up
tons of noise when I run Linux (maybe the hard drive for Linux is too
close to the soundcard, but I don't think the soundcard can be any
further away). I use Linux at school, and feel that it is a quicker
method for doing things (with a shell window open for running Csound,
Xemacs for editing, and SND for listening to the program). However, I
can't tell if the composition is working, or if the new algorithm is bug
free, if I hear lots of spurious noises. 

At some point, I need to get a new soundcard with A/D and D/A convertors
that are external, but for now, it is just easier to run Windows -
especially since configuring a new soundcard in Linux is FAR more
difficult than it is in Windows, and lots of higher end soundcards just
won't work in Linux.

Personally, I'm hoping to try the BeOS soon - especially if any of the
nice realtime computer music environments (SuperCollider, MSP) are
ported to it.