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Why bother? Linux is free, doesn't crash, works great
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You obviously have never seen a kernel segmentation fault. Don't get me wrong, I use linux and love it, but it has its drawbacks too sometimes. Yes, it can crash, and it can be a hard one.
Alternative for photoshop in Linux is GIMP.
Blender is out there for 3D stuff should you need it. There are several well supported packages for video editing instead of premiere. Go check out sourceforge.net
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Why is it that so many people hate Microsoft? Just because other people do and now you can too? I ask because I use products where I work that are made by Microsoft (Office 2003 suite, Windows Server 2003, Exchange, Navision, etc.) I also use linux as our smtp proxy (spam filter), network monitoring system, and my personal bitch computer (currently running protien folding for TFP.) MS actually does make some decent products. You can't condemn the whole company for one product you may not like. And I am willing to be that MS has never actually done anything wrong to you.
Somewhere up above I was seeing someone bashing IBM because of a drive that went bad. The DeskStar (deathstar) drives were awful, and I bought one, and it went bad. But, I still continue to purchase IBM products. I have the faith. No matter what brand of harddrives you buy, it is easily possible for it to die. IBM makes solid products, especially their thinkpads and blade systems.
OK, on to HP. The only thing I buy from HP are the printers. They are good. Period. They have the largest market share, and it continues to hold. We use both consumer and corporate style printers where I work and most of them work flawlessly. We put a lot of use into these printers, rarely an issue. If an issue arises, I don't write off HP because one of their products had issues. I get over it and move on.
And Compaq? Well, I have seen too many of their consumer products fail. When I was younger, I worked as a service tech at Best Buy, and Best Buy is a major seller of Compaq computers (before HP takeover). Well, all I can say is that they return more Compaqs than anything, for actual return or service. The consumer products seem awful. However, their server equipment is quite good. I'm talking about the ProLiant lines and whatnot.
Dell: Someone mentioned issues with Dell above. Did you have more than one bad experience? We use all OptiPlex machines where I work and PowerEdge's for servers. They run good. There service has always been top notch for us (of course we pay for service as well). We had a Dell PowerVault go bad one afternoon (for those who don't know, the PowerVaults are multi-tape backup systems). We called about 0825 that morning and Dell had one flown from OK City, OK to here and we had it about 2pm. Thats pretty good in my opinion.