I can understand that - after learning RHEL and CentOS at work, I would use it in future for any projects as well. I definitely agree on the stability and reliability point - our servers at my workplace also run websites (that clients can access) and host a PostgreSQL database cluster, so they need to have excellent uptime as well.
I suspect you would get on well with one of my colleagues - he uses vim for all his development. We joke that if he could, he'd just run Linux machines with no desktop environment!
