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If you stay with Windows, upgrade to Windows Vista. Don't believe the nonsense some people spread about Vista. It's incredibly stable now that nVidia have sorted out their graphics drivers and now that SP1 has ironed out any problems with the actual OS. Or maybe wait for Windows 7. It's not yet as stable as Vista (I'm running 7 and it's crashed at least twice this week, which to me is simply not good enough).
Vista has some great features, such as editing metadata within Windows Explorer, and it's an overall upgrade from XP. I cringe whenever I log into my XP computer at work...
But at the end of the day just work out what you want to use the computer for and go from there. Windows has the advantages of games and MS Office. Linux is free. Chances are you do something with that computer that you can't do without Windows, but there are options on Linux for most things.
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