I like Linux, several flavors / distributions are fine. I think it's the most useful system in the sense that it has the most similarity to the host I'm deployi

I like Linux, several flavors / distributions are fine. I think it's the most useful system in the sense that it has the most similarity to the host I'm deploying on (that's not true for everyone though). It's finally gotten good enough that I never have to make tweaks or solve weird driver issues when running it as a daily driver - this is on a ThinkPad, ymmv but I'm quite happy. Also, I have all the software I need and in fact for the work I'm doing, the tools work better than they do on Mac (Docker / Go / Python / Lisp / Scheme). Windows isn't even a consideration for me. I know it works for some people the IMO the workflow for development is cumbersome and totally un-fun. Of course if I were stuck doing .NET I would just bite the bullet and use Windows.