Poll: I see a lot of Windows users here, naturally as it's the dominant OS. I do wonder how many of you dev's that would be willing to accept lower compensation in exchange for instead working in Linux?

Using as in 'this is your workstation now, use it', or using as in 'developing apps for' ?

@spl0 yes, as in workstation

@undefined I'd use whatever pays, but prefer Linux.

Windows is slightly tolerable if you put emacs on it.

I had to use a VAXstation (running VMS) once as my workstation! With DECwindows! Even though I was working on a UNIX project.... :-)

Don't think so. Even though I've only started using Linux (Debian) for a couple of months I can already notice that my productivity is simply much higher than when developing on Windows (even though I still do that too).

On my first day at job I was given a windows machine. I simply said I prefer working on Linux and the project they gave me would be easily developed in Linux (it's a r&d project). Next thing I know, they hooked me up with a Linux machine. It made my day :)

I would ask for more money for working on linux machine. Even more if I had to work on a Mac.

I'll stick with Windows, especially now that I can have (mostly) both worlds with Bash on Windows. I'm 10 times more productive on Win than anything I've ever done on Linux.

Mac sucks asses in networking...windows is full of sharewares... not much left for the real work

I actually prefer linux, but as the software I use are written for F*** Windows, I'm kinda stuck using it.