I used to work on Django project on a Mac. Dependencies like python-mysqldb can be quite tricky to install on OSX, whereas Ubuntu only requires you to type 'apt

I used to work on Django project on a Mac. Dependencies like python-mysqldb can be quite tricky to install on OSX, whereas Ubuntu only requires you to type 'apt-get install python-mysqldb' and you're done. More importantly, though, I do not like the idea of having all those services constantly running on my desktop system. I'm using Ubuntu for both development and deployment now and I still use a separate VM.