>On a more serious note, what is with the fad of running OSX and doing all of your work in a VM? Even if you use Linux you are better of doing all your work in

>On a more serious note, what is with the fad of running OSX and doing all of your work in a VM? Even if you use Linux you are better of doing all your work in a VM. Reproducibility, sharing, snapshots, isolation, multiple VM for different target environments, etc. >OSX is terrible for anything serious Citation needed. What exactly does "serious" mean to you? Several multi-billion companies have their developers working on OS X machines. And If I want to do something with something like Premiere, Photoshop et co (it is 2012 after all, multimedia is not an afterthought), I'm dead in the water in Linux. Not at all good for serious work. >and is enough of a pain in the ass that one must use a VM just to run their web application on their development machine. Why not just use Linux?* If your needs are simple enough that you are OK with running a single web server with a single set of libs and frameworks, by all means use Linux. It's not like todays "development machines" just need a single Apache and MySQL. For anything more serious, use a VM, either in Linux or OSX or whatever. I might need to run 5-6 different DBs, or versions of a DB/Server/Caching/Proxies/etc depending on the project I'm working on.