For many years I have worked in IT for my day job and photography has been part time for weddings, corporate portraits, and personal fun projects like most of my studio work.
For many years I was a Netware administrator, starting with Netware 2 up to Netware 6, we generally used DOS and then Windows on the desktop, with the exception of a few Sun workstations running CDE on Unix.
For home use I had the same as most users, and worked my way from DOS, Windows, 3.11, Windows 95 and then Windows 2000. I dabbled with Unix, mainly Redhat as we had a few Redhat servers at work, but it was the launch of Fedora, that made me jump from Windows at home to Linux running Fedora.
I happily ran Fedora as my main machine for many years. It was in 2005 I started to drift to the dark side. It was in 2005 I bought a lovely little 12″ PowerMac for my wife.
It was around this time that Adobe started an open pilot of a new product called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This was for Windows and Mac OS’s only. It was also around this time I discovered how easy colour management and colour calibration was in the Mac. So my Fedora desktop was my main desktop machine, and the Mac was used for running Adobe.
It was not long before I was using the Mac more then my wife, so I then bought my own Mac and my slip to the dark side was complete.
So I use Mac for photography but use Linux day to day. Arch and Debian are my current main distro’s.