Overall, the process was rather painless. I’m loving synaptic package management. It really is much better than RPM. The desktop effects are taking a bit of getting used to. I can’t drag / drop windows onto the workspaces, but that’s not too big a deal.

So far, I’m pleased with the switch. For all you visual people, here’s a wee screenshot of the workspace switcher.

Some things that impressed me:

• Media buttons “just work”, I can play / pause / forward / etc music, beautiful.
• Installing copyright “questionable” plugins (MP3s, divx, etc) was painless and granny easy.
• The windows key does stuff, out of the box, not very useful stuff, but still stuff!
• I could import my pidgin, Evolution and something else data from Fedora. Nice.
• Desktop effects are enabled out of the box (compiz for the techies).
• Stuff prompts for configuration during install, for example ddclient. Handy.

I’m pleased I’ve switched over to Ubuntu. I’m a little wary that the #ubuntu channel is quite busy. Ubuntu seems to be popular with new linux users so there seem to be a lot of “newby” questions on there. Good they’re being answered, but it can be a pain for more experienced users.