[Blink]

Depends if you use your rig for gaming, really. I used Debian on my main machine for 2-3 years. If you don't play games, it's great for productivity.

But mah adobe products...

Not hard to get Photoshop to work in Wine. Gimp is also an option. Many games are easily supported too. I play a lot of games, so eventually I caved.

You can also run Windows PE in QEMU and have full Windows compatibility that way. I don't see a reason why games wouldn't work this way either.