Both Linux and Mac OS is good for web development. I think it depends on hardware and tool chains you are using. Usually, Linux and Mac OS have the same tool ch

Both Linux and Mac OS is good for web development. I think it depends on hardware and tool chains you are using. Usually, Linux and Mac OS have the same tool chains, like Eclipse+Rail+Gulp+Bower+NodeJS. So OS is not a problem, hardware is what you should be concerned about. It will save lots of time if you have a high performance computer. and I think the hardware of Mac Book is better that most of other PC/laptops. I have a Thinkpad E420 laptop which has Windows 7 preinstalled. I upgraded its memory to 4GB. But it is still not enough in windows 7. so I installed Linux Mint Xfce. It is really fast and takes up little memory. But the CPU and disk is not good enough, I still have to wait a time when opening Eclipse or Firefox. So now, I'm planning to buy a Mac Book.