i guess it is easier to be able to develop and deploy on the same platform.

some of your Windows-only applications that you need, might possibly run on Linux in some sort of emulator and you'll be able to stick with Linux :)

i'm using Ubuntu myself, and i was able to install Internet Explorer 6 on it using Wine. it might work for Dreamweaver too...

Wine is pretty stable now and the performance is also good.

:)))))