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I got into Linux when I started some of my upper level programming courses... I do alot of programming work and math, and you cant beat linux for these technologies.

I do work in C/C++, Java, Ruby, Perl... and web development stuff (generally Ruby on Rails). You can do stuff like that in windows (obviously), but it seems like most of these technologies cater to unix-like operating systems. Lots of the work I did in my C class related to shells, system calls, etc. I also like the availability of free software - editors, plugins, programs to do math-related stuff (octave, LaTeX stuff). I always seem to run into quirky issues when doing things like this in windows (my LaTeX package in windows crashes frequently, whereas in ubuntu I have never had a problem). I may make the switch to mac at some point (mainly just because i like textmate).