i use linux because i'm textually oriented (though i loathe texting...
NSFW video of why). when i do shit, i open LXterm, green text on black bg, and go to town. i'm a perl guy, cgi, mysql, so that figures. gnome 2 was a dead end, gnome shell lived on. mate, though, rocks. i didn't like OSX at all, i put one button mice in the category with texting, and that bouncy shit is annoying, plus i can't find crap and bash doesn't work right. i have an old imac 5,2 intel duo core with ubuntu...but it overheats unless i go in and set the fan speed, and for reasons that defy understanding, i can't chron it any such....in short, it's a bitch of a computer. shrug. YMMV.
oh, mate is on an old asus netbook, same tech as the first chromebook, blazes, and i managed to get EA's spore running perfectly under wine, real time. hi def video editing, whatever, it does it. windows crippled it, i think it was win8, with the panels and crap, i just wiped it's brain entirely and went ubuntu. i partition the drive in two parts and only use one at a time as i upgrade, which should prolong the solid state drive's life, right?