Comment 7 for bug 171424

I have used Inkscape for quite a time now and I found that the best environment to work with inkscape is a linux distro.
Using windows won't improve the situation. I use both system on the same machine and my advice, if you want to work uninterrupted is to use Ubuntu if you're very tied up to windows. I work with the latest version for both systems, and this is no WINE, I have a partition with Ubuntu 10.4 and Windows XP ver 2002 sp2. Inkscape will fail much more often than the Ubuntu box.