I have tried many flavors of Linux (I presume you mean desktops - I've run GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and a bunch of others), and I run Fedora (dev) and Ubuntu (HTPC) boxes at home. I've tinkered with switching fulltime to Linux desktops a number of times, and they're great 99% solutions, but the big showstoppers for me have been DRM'd video (Netflix, Amazon) and Steam (I'm a gamer, and 95% of my library doesn't run on Linux). With my setup, literally everything I care about runs without any real effort, and I don't sacrifice any dev power.

The really nice thing about my setup is that because all I need is an SSH client, I can work from my Chromebook, Macbook, or even my phone if I have to, and I have full access to my whole dev environment from anywhere. The biggest thing I've lost is the ability to attach to processes directly to debug them, but I just end up using terminal-level debugging or remote debugging facilities when they're available, and it works fine.

just stop playing games and don't stream media from those services.

Netflix now works on Chrome for Linux, Amazon AFAIK has always worked.

Netflix now works under Chrome (not Chromium) as of...October? But Amazon has broken as of a few months before that - they switched the DRM they use and the old solutions are no longer valid. As far as I know, there is no workable solution for Amazon video on Linux anymore.

DRM-protected video in general is a giant pain in the ass that you don't really notice on the "blessed" platforms.