For a dev machine this is mostly true. I haven't been able to be as conveniently productive on Windows, since I always end up installing Cygwin eventually, the

For a dev machine this is mostly true. I haven't been able to be as conveniently productive on Windows, since I always end up installing Cygwin eventually, then decide I might as well be using Linux. However, for a relaxing machine, Linux doesn't have access to the same games as Windows or even Mac. Well, you can often do some clear hacking to get things running on Linux (Wine, etc.) but it's much easier on Mac or Windows. Thus I still defend Mac as the best mix of Unix development environment + reasonable access to quality games. I usually mention ease-of-use, but as the poster mentions, Linux is much better than last decade.