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Speak for yourself, i use GNU/Linux everywhere, even on the PHB-supplied Apple notebook. You can pry my comforting illusion of freedom from my cold, dead hands!¹

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1. I refer to the multitude of binary blobs required to make anything work these days. Lamentable.

Gentoo: My linux educator.

The fact that you needed to make your own kernel and configure a lot of things on your own made me learn a lot about Linux and GNU. Much more than debian or redhat. There is great value in that I think.

To be fair, I use Debian at work and gentoo on both my personal boxes. So not all of us are on OS X (though my work laptop is a macbook since I didn't get a choice).

Most of my developer colleagues indeed are using OSX, and have for years already. Using Stetson-Harrison method, we have 80% OSX / 10% Linux / 10% Windows.

+1 i3wm on Archlinux until I bought a Mac. Every once in awhile I get itch to go back. Then I go for a walk and the urge passes. :) Thx for sharing.