Started with Windows, then Linux ever since I got out of school since time for gaming was no longer a thing.
I've got a mac mini when my gaming rig died a couple of years ago, tried to make OS X my main thing but it feels so damn slow in comparison to GNOME, which is surprising because GNOME ain't exactly lightweight these days. Basically opening finder takes anywhere up to a minute where-as nautilus is more or less instant.
Used to find image editing lacking, but Inkscape and GIMP are pretty decent replacements for Illustrator and Photoshop.
The only major pitfall I've ever encountered is NVIDIA Optimus (weird IGP/GPU hybrid thing NVIDIA had going on around when i3/i5 laptops were the new hotness), drivers for it were a bitch to the point where Linus publicly said fuck you to NVIDIA during a Q&A. Other than that driver support has actually been better on Linux than Windows in my experience.
I've got a mac mini when my gaming rig died a couple of years ago, tried to make OS X my main thing but it feels so damn slow in comparison to GNOME, which is surprising because GNOME ain't exactly lightweight these days. Basically opening finder takes anywhere up to a minute where-as nautilus is more or less instant.
Used to find image editing lacking, but Inkscape and GIMP are pretty decent replacements for Illustrator and Photoshop.
The only major pitfall I've ever encountered is NVIDIA Optimus (weird IGP/GPU hybrid thing NVIDIA had going on around when i3/i5 laptops were the new hotness), drivers for it were a bitch to the point where Linus publicly said fuck you to NVIDIA during a Q&A. Other than that driver support has actually been better on Linux than Windows in my experience.