What is your main OS besides the Amiga OSes and why?

[Linde]

I use OS X and various GNU/Linux at work and mostly OS X at home as well, but on my personal computers I run Debian GNU/Linux. In OS X, I use VirtualBox and Vagrant a lot to run various operating systems, including Windows, *BSD, GNU/Linux distros and more obscure but interesting operating systems like MINIX 3 and plan9. With Vagrant I can set up such a virtualized environment with a single command as a one-off development server.

OS X is nice though, and I enjoy its BSD user land. It's a legitimate (and certified) UNIX that runs well out of the box as far as I am concerned. Using the different package managers that are available for it makes it very convenient as development workstation.

@TeamBlackFox >> Well the customers I work with uses GUI's since they are regular users.
Maybe your customers are more into consoles, but that can hardly be true for the majority of users.

You can develop GUI applications using a terminal based toolset, you know. In some cases it doesn't matter what the customer prefers, because the customer won't even know that the software is running.

[Linde]

True, I can develp GUI's using terminal based toolset, I can create GUI's using just C and creating everything by hand, but if you ask the end user if the want to pay for it, the answer in my case is a no. So for me it comes down to a time/money issue.

The end user pays for your development tools? My point is that you don't have to use GUI tools just because you're targeting a graphical environment, I'm not saying that you'd necessarily be handing the customers terminal based applications.

It is also very true, that the customer usually don't know what OS the program is running, but since, the company I work at, supplies customers with entire POS systems, support and training also matters, so trying to make our customers use linux or something they are not familiar with would mean loosing customers.
True that broswers can do alot, but there area lot of short comings when it comes to POS and creditcard terminals and browsers.

I can't argue against your particular choices or situation. Your original argument was about users in general, which is why I even responded.

[Linde]

Certified for what?

Certified for being UNIX? UNIX certification is a thing in itself for starters.

Have you seen the number of exploits in unix systems?

Please point to them and convince me that you are also aware of exploits available for other systems and are making a fair comparison.

When exploitable OpenSSL and bash behavior was found recently, I could upgrade these software components within 24 hours of the open disclosures of their discovery to have them fixed. Had the same thing happened in Windows, I'd probably be waiting for the behavior to be exploited in the wild before the issue was even addressed, and Windows software has had its fair share of security holes. The only reason these exploits make the news is because of full disclosure, that UNIX-like systems make up a large part of the internet infrastructure, and the relative infrequency of such issues on UNIX-likes.