I am about to buy a fancy laptop primarily for the purpose of doing all my cryptocurrency stuff (but not mining).
You don't need a fancy laptop just for the sake of bitcoining.However,it is always a good a futuristic thinking process.It is not a bad investment after-all.
Can anybody help me decide between Windows and Linux? My main question is do wallets/nodes tend to be developed on Linux first or Windows first? I want to know which platform Bitcoin clients, but also other cryptocurrency clients/wallets in general tend to get developed on first.
Well,it's a subjective question.Personally,all that 'geeky' stuff is always deployed on Linux machines because most of the dev groups reply on it and they're a bit more secure.Most of the wallets always have windows/Linux installations available.If a command line and a terminal really turns you on,go with Ubuntu.
I am not an expert with command line (although I can use Linux in a basic way), so I refer mainly to GUI type wallets. I am interested in software for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Factom, Synereo, Dash, Maidsafe, Storj, NEM, Sia and Lisk. So Windows or Linux for these?
My previous question should answer that. Stick to Windows.