Quote Originally Posted by Altena View Post
I am not knocking Linux as I don't use it day to day, and I have heard great things about it for sure~

As far as I know though, Linux still has a lot of compatibility issues with both drivers and software, does it not? Truthfully I don't know enough about Linux to truly comment on it, and although I have heard good things about it - it does seem more like a "programmer's OS".

In saying that though, if you base your computer's build on Mac OS compatible hardware you can quad-boot Windows/Ubuntu/Linux/Mac OS if you really desperately want to.
The only real driver compatibility problem I have seen is when using at least AMD/Intel hybrid graphics, on my laptop in paticular I am unable to switch between the GPUs, and the Intel GPU is used by default with no ways to change it currently, this prevents me from using hardware acceleration, and various other features. If you have a single AMD or Nvidia GPU there will be no issues with drivers, just download the propriatory drivers after your install.

On the more software side there is a lot of compatible software, more people are moving towards supporting Linux, if you take Ubuntu the software center has a lot of software to download, from Skype and Dropbox to software that does the same as the Windows or Mac equivelant.

You can also use Wine in any Linux distro, but as we all know Wine compatibility can vary a lot, but this is the same for Mac.

Also if you don't find software you want in the software center you can check the developer's website to look for compatible software, but you might have to google how to install it, a lot can be made into a shell script which requires you to change the script's permissions to allow them to run "chmod +x <filename.sh>" then just run it with "./filename.sh"

Linux getting a lot more user friendly now, and it's getting a lot more compatible with software.