I use a similar setup and it seems like the obvious choice to me - all the benefits of a sane dev environment and you still get the build quality and prettiness

I use a similar setup and it seems like the obvious choice to me - all the benefits of a sane dev environment and you still get the build quality and prettiness of os x for everything else. Vagrant is a really nice tool for maintaining your development environment via chef or puppet http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/