"It's best to think of Linux as a professional utility." I guess it fits into that box. I use OSX as my desktop at home, but I would 100% go with some Linux b

"It's best to think of Linux as a professional utility." I guess it fits into that box. I use OSX as my desktop at home, but I would 100% go with some Linux before going back to Windows at home. I switched to a Windows job after using Linux for 10years--I really miss using Linux. At first I thought it was a familiarity thing and dove all into powershell and the like, but I the solutions for Windows seems awkward, slow, and clunky. We're probably getting very different "value adds" from Windows vs Linux. I liked Visual Studios' debugger, but I mostly compile other's code (libraries) and write glue-code in things like Python or munge data via the command line. I abhor editors that take 5+ seconds to launch (vi generally loads in much less than 1 second) and using command line tools to compile means I can script and chain things together, or easily run them on a remote computer. As for desktop use at home, I mostly use Internet, Word processor, spreadsheets, and tinker. OSX and google docs fits most of those use-cases.