[shortlived]

My 2c:

I was a Windows user and part-time Linux hobbyist. I finally decided to make the switch because I was in a work environment that would allow it. I spent 1 year with Ubuntu and I had to go back to Windows in the end for these reasons:

    1. kernel panics

You are coding with senior dev and your machine locks up. Just boom. Or worse, you are presenting something to a group. I didn't have the freedom to change hardware and never fully tracked down the bug(s) (one was wifi related and the other, who knows).

    2. Microsoft office, et al

The biggest missing app was MS Lync, which is an instant messenger client and the killer feature was instant, seamless, desktop sharing. I started working with more and more remote people and it's such a great thing to just share desktops and look at code, etc.

Both of these problems could partly be solved by maintaining a Windows box for pseudo dev work, but I deemed that too much of a PITA.