Ubuntu 13.04 with MATE, but most of my work is done on virtual machines (all sorts of Windows and Linux) and on servers I ssh to (mostly Linux).
Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?
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#22It depends a lot on what you do for work, I bet. I'm in sort of a similar situation as you--Windows at work, Linux at home, but I also have a mac. I run a pretty bare-bones setup on my Linux desktop (#!: an OS for those who got frustrated trying to learn Arch and still like APT). The lack of extra stuff makes me less prone to messing around, so it's great as a GSD system and when I want to dedicate my CPU and memory…
I'm mostly doing java, eclipse rcp, python and web stack work so Linux would be fine.
But occasionally I need to work with color-calibrated monitors for photo processing and I have yet to try out if Linux and ICC get along fine and if there's a chance to hook my Spyder calibrator without booting to Win or Mac. Also need to check if CR2 raw files in Gimp is something that I can build my workflow on.
Additionally, with linux I'll miss some music creation with a DAW and a bunch of VST plugins. That forces me to keep multibooting to Windows when choosing Linux.
With OS X it would be a single env.
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#23I started with Ubuntu Linux then made the switch to Mint for a while and switched back just within the past month. After a few weeks of dealing with constant error popups on Ubuntu 13.04 I decided to permanently switch to Mint. May switch to Debian or OpenSuse just to see what they are like.
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#24OS X for work (they gave me the Mac), but I spend most of my time in a Linux shell or IDE. I used to split my time between Ubuntu and Windows for development.
I prefer the dev environment of OSX and Linux to Windows and the UIs of Linux and Windows to OSX.
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#25OS X
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#26It depends a lot on what you do for work, I bet. I'm in sort of a similar situation as you--Windows at work, Linux at home, but I also have a mac. I run a pretty bare-bones setup on my Linux desktop (#!: an OS for those who got frustrated trying to learn Arch and still like APT). The lack of extra stuff makes me less prone to messing around, so it's great as a GSD system and when I want to dedicate my CPU and memory…
> If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX.
People choose OS X because of its design though, not because of its aesthetics. "You can't put lipstick on a pig" and all that. The trouble with Linux is that there's no consistency in UIs between various apps, and skinning just makes things even less consistent.
I'm in your scientific computing category, and I'm using OS X as my main machine right now--my only complaints are the occasional missing package from Homebrew. I suspect I might prefer Ubuntu in that regard.
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#27Linux at home, Windows and Windows Server at internship. Makes me remember everything I disliked about server administration. Let's just say the commandline is really my thing.
Edit: Oh and I got an Android phone that also runs Debian. Perhaps it's interesting to add iOS, Windows Phone and Android to the list? You can vote multiple options anyway.
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#28Linux for my desktop (where all the apps I use live inside a tmux session) and OSX for my laptop.
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#29What is a general opinion about hackintoshes?
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#30I used FreeBSD for a couple of years around 2003, other than that I have been running GNU/Linux since the Atari ST days.