Installed yesterday.

Installed yesterday.

I would agree with the installation, and for my own use, it's highly recommended, but I have a few gripes with it (or rather "Linux on the Desktop") that makes me a bit sceptical.

I recently tried, as an experiment, to install Ubuntu on a friend of mine's laptop. Although the installation was pretty smooth, getting MP3 and Java and so on to work is probably more than most "dumb" users can handle. Xine failed miserably in trying to play her *cough* pirated *cough* movies, so I had to install mplayer and all the codecs along with it, and Totem was really annoying the shit out of me (not working well either and crashing), so that went out as well. Tried setting rhythmbox up as much as possible to mimick Winamp, but installed Beep Media Player just in case, and Open Office as well.
All in all, a pretty close match to what she is used to with Windows, but it was just too very much different for her, and I must admit I felt a bit disappointed with some of the hurdles we had in installing it (all the mandatory comments about suspend and Linux and such aside). I had high hopes for the experiment, but it did leave me wanting for a more integrated and working-out-of-the-box desktop Linux.
Ubuntu is (from what few distros I've tried recently) by far the one that is closest in achieving this, but it's just not quite there yet. Reading their goals for Breezy Badger has my hopes up high though.