I should hope not! Windows 7 is the only OS that can readily handle recent (within the last year) graphics cards, both for gaming and programming (when you can

I should hope not! Windows 7 is the only OS that can readily handle recent (within the last year) graphics cards, both for gaming and programming (when you can offset some calculations to the GPU, things become fast). Whenever I try Linux, getting all the hardware working is fiddly, and the hardware in Apple computers is about a year behind everywhere else. I still run a virtualised Linux environment, though, because there are some things (such as Git integration in Emacs) that I couldn't get working quite right. It works oddly well overall. I also have four monitors, 'cause I'm weird. [Edit: I originally wrote "modern" graphics cards, which is a term so variable it doesn't have a meaning.]