As a developer I feel neither Windows nor Mac OS are ready for the desktop. Windows is almost completely useless and you need to immediately resort to Cygwin or

As a developer I feel neither Windows nor Mac OS are ready for the desktop. Windows is almost completely useless and you need to immediately resort to Cygwin or a VM to get anything useful done. Mac OS is much more useful out of the box but lacks up-to-date packages and a good package manager. I haven't used Mac OS recently enough to comment on Homebrew, but the last time I tried it was no where near as robust as many Linux package managers are. Arch Linux has a huge amount of user-submitted packages so that even relatively unknown projects tend to be easy to install.