Me personally, I was a long-time Windows user but moved to a Mac about three/four years ago. At the time it was so I could use Sketch, however I liked it so much I have never looked back.
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i've recently use mac..
damn it was very different when i still use ubuntu for my daily coding since 4 year.
the keyboard and the ux is challenging enough.. (especialy finder app), sometime i slapped the wrong key (due to my muscle memory maybe) and i think the ux is very weird for me
just missed my old ubuntu 😢
Honestly, I have used all 3 for over a decade now. Like everything else in technology, each one has it's pros / cons. :) These days I spend about 80% of my time on Windows, but I am on the "Fast Ring" of the Insider program, and I heavily utilize WSL. The other 20% of my time is on OSX, which I use primarily for XCode and iPhone integration. I used to dual-boot Windows / Linux when I was heavy into Android Development, but I feel like as good as Windows 10 is, and having WSL built-in, I don't have a need anymore for a full-blown Linux Distro installed, personally.
linux - learning
windows - gaming
mac - everyday things
btw, I've good and bad experience with all of 'em. Thinking of switching to BSD for some change.
I use all three OSes: Linux, Mac and Windows. All of them have things I like, and all of them have things I hate. Here are a few:
Mac:
Love: general OS design, usability, boot up time is acceptable.
Hate: having to buy a new laptop every few years when the OS can no longer upgrade to a new version, just so I can keep using XCode.
Windows:
Love: Visual Studio, greater apps and games availability, hardware compatibility
Hate: doesn't run on non-SSD drives (some people will argue against this but they probably have not tried it), automatic updates (nothing like the PC shutting down mid-work and spending 30 minutes installing updates, without warning).
Linux:
Love: boot up time (depends on distro), docker
Hate: dependencies, compiling source code just to have usable software.
There are many more things I could say, but these are just a few.
I've tried each and every platform for couple of years and right now I'm on Mac, and so far I'm loving it than Linux. But I'm also looking back to Windows because of their future plans (in a developer's point of view), but we'll see :)
For work, I currently mostly use Linux (specifically, Red Hat and derivatives). Prior to that, you name the flavor of commercial UNIX and I probably used, knew or otherwise supported it to one degree or another.
While I pretty much detest using Windows at work, as a personal operating system, it's fairly decent. I find that it achieves a good tradeoff between flexibility and "easy". While not quite as flexible as any given Linux distro, there's a whole lot less of the vendor insisting that they know better than me how I'll want to use things …the way Apple does.
I've used all three at various points. Right now I use Windows at work, and mostly Linux at home.
All of the above, linux laptop (for speed), Windows 10 pro desktop (for .net), and iMac (For some IOS testing).
Windows; it works.
Apple hardware is fragile and expensive. Never needed it at work.
Unix, please no. I do DTP with an open-source application. Reading the installation issues Unix people have to get the new version installed is a tiny window on what I have heard or years. Once I hear of a true benefit, I will try it.
I have used all 3 platforms but work best on a Mac.
I started work with Linux because some compiling required either Linux/MacOS. It was great for Dev, but Open/Libre Office were absolutely useless 5 years ago compared to MS Office. I guess today online solutions would compensate that.
I used Windows mostly for home projects, but the lack of a good terminal made it really hard to work on web development easily.
OSX has a good balance between the two, and I really like that the touch pad doesn’t get triggered while typing. (I usually disable touch pads on windows/Linux PCs...).
Bonus points for MacOS having the easiest way to use a JP/EN keyboard.
The macbook touchpads are certainly in a league of their own.