The only Adobe product I use is PhotoShop. An alternative is The GIMP, but it's not really a replacement, just an alternative if you want freebie software.
I use Windows XP. Linux is appealing, but my previous experiences have been unpleasant. I can't be bothered recompiling something just to make it work, and just want my operating system to work, not require modification to use whatever software package I decide to use. Vista is a no go at this stage as there is no way to run older versions of Internet Explorer on it (yet). MacOSX is quite appealing, but my budget can't quite stretch to a Mac at the moment, if I did run it, I would need to use Parallels to run Internet Explorer for testing purposes.
For text-editing I use Araenae which I use for all HTML, CSS and PHP work. I use MySQL for databasing, although only because that is the most common one (I have no idea if it is better or worse than other ones).
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