Comment Re:WOW! (Score 1) 132
And get paid to do it?
Unless you are doing desktop support (which doesn't pay) or developing applications that will run directly on the devices that sit in front of users (which can pay very well or not at all), you will likely be doing backroom work, where Linux dominates. Backroom work pays nicely and there's lots of it. True, one can do backroom work from a Mac easily enough, but a Linux desktop has its productivity advantages, like being able to spin up dozens of LXC containers in a way that mirrors the production environment, which is exactly the reason why my work desktop is a Linux box.
If your work is aimed at desktop support of Macs or developing applications for Apple products, a Mac makes sense, as does a Windows box for Windows work, but the amount of real work opportunities I'm seeing with Linux has grown a great deal in the last five years, like quadrupled. We're not talking about a tiny slice of the pie anymore. It's significant and growing fast.