As Front End Developer - OS X - I have access to Bash and for things like Node do not need to install a terminal (like Windows) for running commands. There's a

As Front End Developer - OS X - I have access to Bash and for things like Node do not need to install a terminal (like Windows) for running commands. There's a lot of OS X only apps that make my life a little easier, Tower, Kaleidoscope, CodeKit, Colorsnapper, Sketch, Fontprep, Transmit, Slicy, Web Code that mostly have equivs on Linux and Windows but aren't as polished. Plus iOS simulation is OS X only and regardless of feelings towards this, it is something that has to be acknowledged. VM software seems to be the most polished for OS X with options of VMware, Parallels, and Virtualbox, which is more than enough for running Windows Server Edition for ColdFusion legacy projects or just general testing with all the modern.ie distros. Also as front end developer, I'm tied to commercial software (Photoshop, Illustrator mostly, sometimes Indesign and Lightroom) and while there are Linux solutions they aren't ideal. My job of course can be done from any OS, but OS X I feel offers the most advantages having the best of both worlds from Linux and OS X. I'm able to config apache2 and manage my own Vhosts more sanely than Windows, but I'm also not as beholden to open source and always running workarounds like WINE and VMs for everyday stuff.