Thank You for the response,

I suppose the adjective better is not appropriate. I should be saying what are the disadvantages between operating systmes?

The reason why I ask is because I am considering Linux as the operating system.

The purpose of Maya is of couse end result 3D graphics and animation. But the means to that end is experimentation.

Experimentation with color, lighting texturing, rendering etc., etc., etc.

With Macs there is no experimenting with the OS because of heavy proprietary structure. And that goes fot the hardware as well. You get what you pay for.

With Windows not much with the OS as well but you can experiment with the different graphics cards and the opengl platform easily.

With Linux I may be able to run experiments cause the OS is open source.

These are just my newbie thoughts. And because I want to build a dedicated computer to work on Maya generated 3D files, if I could get some advice from professionals that would be most helpful.

My default OS is Windows 7 64 bit.

Windows 8 is untested and buying a Mac is not really pragmatic for me.

On the otherhand, the question posed before me is, what are the pros and cons of a Linux Distribution and does anyone in the field have any thoughts.