I think is depends heavily on what you're doing and your mental work flows. Personally whenever I use OS X or Windows I feel a tremendous decrease in UI bandwid

I think is depends heavily on what you're doing and your mental work flows. Personally whenever I use OS X or Windows I feel a tremendous decrease in UI bandwidth. That said, I only use a very tiny portion of the Linux desktop. If I was primarily doing mainstream activities instead of server side software development, I'd probably switch.