&gt; Reading this post I am reminded just how much more work it is to have a functional linux desktop that ends up running worse than a Mac or windows box.<p>I&#x27;m extremely happy with stumpwm.  It runs, it switches between emacs, Firefox and a good console just fine.  It&#x27;s infinitely more work to get Windows or an OS X box to the same level of functionality, because neither of them properly supports all of these key features: POSIX; a Common Lisp tiling window manager (which means I always have a REPL a slime-connect away); native X11.<p>I literally <i>never</i> miss Windows or OS X.