I use Ubuntu at work, OSX at home. I've customized Ubuntu with Avant Window Navigator to make it a little more Mac-like (once you start using a Dock, it's hard

I use Ubuntu at work, OSX at home. I've customized Ubuntu with Avant Window Navigator to make it a little more Mac-like (once you start using a Dock, it's hard to give it up). I've gotta say I agree with people who say it's easier to develop on Ubuntu. E.g., to do Django development on my Mac with Postgres, I needed to install an alternate, MacPorts version of Python (which ends up in /opt/local/bin/python2.4, not in /usr/bin/python), get the Postgres driver from MacPorts, then do all of my Django development with the alternate python installation. Yecch. The Postgres driver wouldn't compile otherwise. On Ubuntu, I just apt-get'd the packages and started developing. And don't even get me started on Java development in the two environments (yeah, I know, I'm a loser Java developer). The state of the JDK on OSX has never been very clear (OpenJDK FreeBSD Based Java 6? Apple's Java 5?) Anyway, just use what you like. If it were up to me, Ubuntu wins for hacking and development, OSX wins for usability and commercial polish, but either environment will handle both functions well enough to get you by.