Best operating system for a computing degree?
I'm in the final year of a 4-year engineering degree program in Electronics and Communication Engineering. I have installed and use Kubuntu for the past 3 years and I love it!

It is lightweight and crashes very rarely (with 8 GB RAM, but 4 GB RAM is also useable with fewer applications runnning concurrently).
Most updates can be done without restarting your computer and you are not forced to update.
Beautiful and intuitive GUI (KDE)
Free KDE development tools like KDevelop and Kate are awesome!
Easily install and update software using Discover application.
Different modes and a fully customisable desktop
Tons of free software that can be installed.
The PDF reader, Okular is really good!
Learning Unix and Linux administration is a very valuable skill in the computing industry.