I was using Windows 2002, Linux from 2003-2006, OS X 2006-2013 and back to Linux since then. It really depends on what you're doing. I'm doing some desktop app

I was using Windows 2002, Linux from 2003-2006, OS X 2006-2013 and back to Linux since then. It really depends on what you're doing. I'm doing some desktop app deverlopement and a little webdevelopement in my free time, with git, Emacs, QtCreator, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp on Arch. I also record podcasts and master them with Ardour [1] on my Linux machine. I seldom play some game from Steam. I use Skype to call my parents. I also use it to manage my photos with Darktable [2] and RAWTherapee [3]. I listen to my music collection with Gnome Music and synchronize it between my computers with Syncthing. In my case I basically don't need to use anything which doesn't work on Linux, I bought a computer which was made for Linux [4], so I didn't have any driver problems. I don't do much with graphics. For me the values with which Linux comes are important, especialle freedom. I am aware that there might be more convinient applications out there but because they don't respect my freedom I don't have the desire to use them. I like that arrangement and it seems to improve a lot with time. [1] http://ardour.org/ http://ardour.org/ [2] http://www.darktable.org/ http://www.darktable.org/ [3] http://www.rawtherapee.com/ http://www.rawtherapee.com/ [4] http://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-Zoll/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-13-v3-13-Zoll-matt-Full-HD-IPS-Aluminiumgehaeuse-Intel-Core-i7-Energiespar-CPU-zwei-HDD/SSD-bis-16GB-RAM-bis-15h-Akku-Slim-Book.geek http://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebook... [update] I forgot to write that at work, I work within the automobile industry and we do infotainment systems based on Linux (with yocto), in our company basically everyone uses Linux on the Desktop and we have gotten so far that a big portion of our customers moves over from Windows to Linux while they work together with us because they see how much easier and faster developement is when you develop for Linux and at the same time run Linux on your dev-machine. [http://www.pelagicore.com/ http://www.pelagicore.com/]