As people are starting to put their development servers and even their development environments entirely on the cloud, it makes less and less sense to tie your home OS so tightly to your work OS. Why struggle getting Ubuntu sound drivers to work on your laptop when you can enjoy your Mac's sound drivers and SSH into the dev server on Amazon?
Similarly, see the recent rise in virtualized dev environments (VMware, Virtual Box, etc.)
The Linux laptops with the penguin stickers are disappearing from the hackathons because its easier to decouple work from play than it ever used to be - and when you're done coding for the day, you can just fire up Chrome and surf Facebook like the other 99% of the internet.
This seems to be an antiquated view of Linux, I've been running it for a year or so, and Ubuntu seems to work perfectly. And I have zero problem firing up Chrome and surfing FB on my Linux box...
Similarly, see the recent rise in virtualized dev environments (VMware, Virtual Box, etc.)
The Linux laptops with the penguin stickers are disappearing from the hackathons because its easier to decouple work from play than it ever used to be - and when you're done coding for the day, you can just fire up Chrome and surf Facebook like the other 99% of the internet.