I'm actually pretty much in the same place. I spend most of my time in front of windows and all I can say is that it is the spawn of hell. When it works, it wor

I'm actually pretty much in the same place. I spend most of my time in front of windows and all I can say is that it is the spawn of hell. When it works, it works pretty well but if something goes wrong you're going to lose half a day to it easily. For example recently we had a client who couldn't download a document in their IE8 on Windows XP due to a cache control bug. It took literally hours to find the issue and get a resolution (which involved setting an undocumented registry flag to an undocumented hex value) and having to issue a group policy update to about 5000 people. Same with Ubuntu although to be honest it just doesn't work properly, ever. Nothing whatsoever ever does what you tell it and it's a shit to maintain. I'm stuck with two LTS 10.04 machines and there is no long term support - they've shipped a broken MySQL version for 2 years. It's so reliable they turned off hibernate! Launchpad is like an arid desert when it comes to support. We even had paid support from Canonical and it was shit. All out Linux stuff is on debian now. I've owned a few Macs as well and they've been the most hassle free devices so far although I've had some serious hardware problems such as a 2010 MBP catch fire on me. Before it caught fire, it was the only machine I didn't have to wait for all the time or argue with. I now reside on a windows 7 x64 on a ThinkPad t61 with virtualbox running debian for dev work. Persuade me to buy another Mac! What has changed in the last 2 years?