This is a good enough reason. Unless you are under time constraints. There always a drop in productivity when you attempt something new. I came upon Linux ass-backward. In the junior high setting it was the only server at the time that could provide file sharing for both Macs and PCs as we had a mixed campus. I was able to set up every student staff with a username and password so they could save their work and access it from anywhere on campus. That boxed never crashed, set up users and password at the beginning of the year and it was good til the next year other than to add new users.

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I've played with the desktop version with Ubuntu several times before using it full time a couple of years ago. I do some programming in Pythonn and its a great environment for that. It meets all of my other general needs.

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I have nothing against Windows either. Both are readily available. But I have a duel monitor set up on the Linux box so I usually default to that. It glitches occassionally, but overall performance is good.