Really worth a listen! ShopTalkShow, Dave Rupert goes Windows.

I'm always use Mac for development and Ubuntu for deploying my apps

Macbook Pro Retina / OS X. Without the fu** awesome sharp display i cant work anymore :)

On every other display i get headache after a few hours.

Server runs FreeBSD 10 w/ Apache 2.4 & MariaDB 10. My laptop is Windows 7 (provided by work).

For the editor, I currently use a mix of Sublime Text 3 & Notepad++, and I'm looking into buying PhpStorm IDE.

I use Dokany v0.7.4, together with WinSshFS 4every1 edition so I can edit files directly on my server over SSH, from my Windows box. (Dokany + WinSshFs maps a folder on my server to a Windows drive letter, so native applications don't have any idea what's happening behind the scenes.)

Ubuntu 14. I figured if I am going to learn web development, I should know Linux. As it turned out, I love it. My other home computers use Windows which I use for 3d graphics and 3d gfx programming using Visual Studio. I've settled comfortably on Ubuntu for web dev and Winows for 3d.

I've used Windows and Linux for more than 20 years each but the last laptop I got from work was a macbook pro after seeing windows 8 released. I'm not a fan of a cluttered UI and OSX is pretty minimal in that regard.

Imp I think OS X is a great middle ground as of right now, though after el captain it might be changing.

You get the power of Linux with the software support of Windows and then some (sql pro, etc).

I've mentioned it before and say it again though, I can get 2 great ms or Linux laptops for the price of one Mac Pro. That imo is the main issue, yes Mac are better quality and because of Mac parts and OS last longer (support and drivers etc).

OSX started to become popular around the time that Rails started being well known.

I've been on an Apple OS for eons ... almost got. At that time, I thought Solaris copied Apple but thinking back to those days, OSX is really looking like Solaris instead.

I jumped on the OSX Beta and never looked back. I tried doing ubuntu when I built my hackintosh but I missed the clarity of OSX.

Which OS is better? The one that makes you feel better and helps YOU to be efficient at your job.

@andy True. It's actually impossible to run rails with mysql on windows, at least not the latest version. One good reason to use a MAC is if you want to code under the sunlight, with the Retina screens the sun doesn't bother you.

I use both OSX and WIN but always under Vagrant UBUNTU 14.1

OS-X For Development

Windows For Gaming

Ubuntu For Production Server

NOTE: obviously, tinkering with your hardware or OS is more than likely a hobby rather than a necessity.

Can somebody explain this Apple Tax mentality???

As I see it: time = money (as developers we all know this right ?!? ) the above statement should be true.

looking for proper drivers or figuring how to make something in your OS work = time time is money, isn't it ;-)

When does the Apple Tax actual become cheaper to pay?

OS X 10.11 with PHP 7 compiled via homebrew. Just $ php artisan serve for now. Will try docker with Homestead soon. At work I deploy apps on Linux machines with self compiled Apache / PHP configurations.

OSX for most things, Windows in a VM for .NET stuff. I grew up tinkering with Linux, so OSX offers the unix-like familiarity with proper support (and wonderful command line).

Windows is fine but I agree that you run into obscure issues. I always feel like I'm in a non-native environment, and dislike the GUI-heavy approach.

Windows but my Dev box where my code runs is a Raspberry Pi, takes 10 minutes to setup and works perfectly. I access the files on the Pi via Samba share. I also leave it on all the time with external ssh access so I can code anywhere. Production is CentOS.

Fedora Linux since F16.

I use windows 10, and I love it. Every OS has it's own problem when you are new commerce to development. It doesn't matter which OS is better, you must master in one and develop with no tension and problem :) ;)

Linux Mint. Windows is too much of a pain and I can't afford Apple products.

My main OS is windows. I use it at work, on my laptop and on my home server (mostly file server and backups). You have to love how windows work seamlessly with almost anything a client or an office might throw at you. Plus I have been a .NET/MSSQL dev for many years.

I use ubuntu on my VMs and Centos or ubuntu with cpanel on my servers.

I got a macbook (white) a few years back on an impulse because it looked so nice, but hated OSX. I hated how opinionated it was, and how it lacked some obvious functionality that I came to be accustomed in windows and linux. I installed bootcamp windows on it and later sold it for a windows laptop with much nicer hardware (and much crappier quality as it seems). Lately I bought a macmini because I needed to use sketchapp and I thought it was time to start learning some IOS development. Not hating it (I needed to keep a more open mind to get some specific work done), but its HDD is really slow and I hate that I cannot update it to SSD and add RAM myself.

Oh and I love my two 23" Dell monitors and mechanical keyboards (although if I knew how buggy it is, I would skip the razer blackwidow and went for something else). Oh and razer deathadder mouse rocks :)

But I prefer Windows 10 because it's convenient and easy to use. I can set up easily environment variables. I can easily viewing, changing, or even delete system files without using vim or sudo around. I can install most of the tools I want in Windows.

Yes, of course Windows is less secure and it's easier for you to mess up the system. But, come on. It's a development environment, not production. And we are not some end user with little computer skills. I convenience over security and end-user experience.

Linux for my part. Remember that he is the king of the servers.

@dt

Windows and mac I should prefer Mac

Windows/Wamp since 17years ago, never needed anything else. I have come to love it. At the time I started it was what I had, now its what I know and love

Like most others, a hybrid of both going on for 10+ years now. Windows 11 at work with XAMPP, MacOS X at home with MAMP and a little bit of Herd to move forward.

i use windows and WSL2, and it work great, You can also integrate it with docker if you need to