1. It ain't the OS you use it's the ideas in your head and what you do with em. Do we ever hear artists defending to death their particular paintbrush or palette knife?
Actually, you do.
As a painter and illustrator I know that finding tools that work right for your own technique and are not low-quality is one of the most important elements to doing good work. The standard rule of thumb for oil painters is to buy the most expensive oil paints you can afford, then spend money on good brushes and other materials. A good palette knife is important, but very dependent on personal preference (and generally very cheap).
The idea that you can do good work with any tools is ridiculous, though obviously a professional artist will create a better picture with a 99� watercolor set than an amateur will.
The question is, to what degree are you fighting the qualities and abilities of your tools and to what degree are they aiding you in your work. NO good graphic designer would willingly choose to lay out a brochure using MS Word rather than Quark or InDesign, and similarly most programmers who set up web servers and web services greatly prefer Unix to Windows.
Of course multimedia programmers need to target the platforms that their users are on, but currently that is a very large argument for using Flash rather than Director -- as one of the best aspects of Flash is that you can author on any platform and their are very few cross platform issues for the final SWF file.
That said, I love the capabilities of Director and hope it becomes MUCH easier to make cross-platform movies and projects so I don't have to move all my development over to Flash.
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