There are advantages to using VMs even if you've installed Linux as the base OS on Mac hardware. The VMs provide isolation for testing and developing the serve

There are advantages to using VMs even if you've installed Linux as the base OS on Mac hardware. The VMs provide isolation for testing and developing the server components. (I'm assuming you are developing server code). Through synced folders, you can still use your favorite $EDITOR on the host machine -- vim, emacs, sublime text, whatever. Onboarding is faster, and you can manage multiple node setups. Further, you have the additional advantage of being able to replicate staging or production systems on your local box. This reduces time spent round-tripping to a staging server. This lets you standardize the server code without requiring all developers to standardize on editors/ide/etc. Personally, I am more productive on OSX than on Linux. But that's because my actual dev environment is tmux+vim. I let OSX and Mac hardware handle the stuff that it does much better than Linux: being able to talk to anyone, anywhere, with anything. (Networking) Being able to reliably suspend and wake.