There's not much downside to OS X for a Linux fan. Yeah it's BSD but most important unix programs you can get via brew, etc. And of course you can run Linux in

There's not much downside to OS X for a Linux fan. Yeah it's BSD but most important unix programs you can get via brew, etc. And of course you can run Linux in a VM at native speed without much problem... run a dozen of them if you want to simulate a distributed system (Which is what I do before pushing out to the cloud.)