How to juggle many computer platforms & Operating Systems?

[Daedalus]

I don't think you'll suffer from using multiple platforms, it's more likely to be beneficial, since you will become more familiar with all of them over time, and will be able to think more easily about sharing data across platforms. I use several, some every day, some just to play with once in a while, but I'm not losing skills or anything like that due to it. I currently have an iBook with Tiger and a cheap Acer laptop with Lubuntu for my laptopping needs, an A1 with 4.1, an Ubuntu machine which also boots Haiku RC3 and AROS, a Windows box and my towered A1200. Generally I'm picking up more from playing with all of them than I'd ever gain just by using one.

[Daedalus]

@Duce

Nice setup - awfully posh with your Visio charts I have mine scribbled on a page torn from a notepad and taped to the side of my PC. I have a nice little Cisco router which has a basic NAS server built in and is mounted on all the machines I use via SMB. I use a KVM for the monitor, also have VNC on some machines but never use it. I have an Apple Airport for streaming music across the network via wifi to the living room, and an ethernet bridge for connecting my Bluray player, satellite decoder, or anything else in the living room which needs a network connection but only has an ethernet port.

And most of the machines are named after custom chips Paula, Lisa, Fat_Agnus, Buster, Amber, Alice, Akiko and so on...