I still use windows mostly because of my primary tools (Maya, Photoshop and Fusion - occasional game), however I have a VM with linux in it and just run a fulls

I still use windows mostly because of my primary tools (Maya, Photoshop and Fusion - occasional game), however I have a VM with linux in it and just run a fullscreen putty on a second monitor. For django dev, for example, I have a vertically split screen where bottom is a :resize of 10 lines and running manage.py runserver_plus and top one I run bash or cycle through several (whatever I need). Similar stuff happens when I dev in D or C++. I edit files via tramp on that VM dev server. Neat combination is that I move VM from workstation to laptop and vice versa, basically having a portable dev server all the time with me. It would be nice though if I could find a binary diff copy for files, since copying VM over network can take some time (luckily I don't do that all the time).