While desktop market is dead and Linux will not be mainstream in that market, it is an excellent choice as a developer desktop. Fast, super easy to install ever

While desktop market is dead and Linux will not be mainstream in that market, it is an excellent choice as a developer desktop. Fast, super easy to install everywhere and has the best possible packaging systems to get all the software you need. If choosing the right distro, you don't need yearly updates that break your tools or a credit card to use the proprietary app store for certain libraries needed for your open source pipeline. I'm not saying it's perfect, but in 2017 and being a developer, I'd take a serious look how nice of an OS it actually is.