If you're writing software, there is no environment now nor or in the future that will compare to Linux and the BSDs, because they were written by guys like you for guys like you. If you're a syadmin there's no environment now nor in the future that will compare to Linux and the BSDs, because they were written by guys like you for guys like you. If you're a scientist writing software, there' is no envornment now nor in the future that will compare to Linux and the BSDs, because they care at least in principal about guys like you and everyone else cares about marketshare. For the time being, artist still count as "marketshare". Give it a few years before Apple stops caring about users who produce anything at all and watch Photoshop get ported to Linux, Pantone relax its licensing enough that Gimp doesn't have to lag behind and kleinbl00 mellowing a bit as less artificial stress filters down to him.