Just spent a lot of time today tweaking ubuntu 10.04 to work with intel wireless :/ Also the proprietary ATI graphics drivers the OS recommended I installed caused all sorts of problems with sleep\hibernate\freezing. Not really a linux problem as the default non-proprietary drivers I switched back to actually work great, but the OS did literally give me an icon reminder telling me to do what caused the problem. Also the battery on my laptop lasts half as long as it does in win7\cygwin.... so more tweaking ahead...
edit: on the plus side I love Gnome DO.... I can't believe I found something better than win7 start autocomplete or OSX Spotlight...
Gnome Do is a little treasure that needs as much exposure as it can get. It completely changes one's interaction with the OS. No more hunting around for apps in the menus. No more using the menus. Reduced use of the mouse.
I've spent the last few months fighting with Ubuntu 10.04 on my Lenovo x100e. Wireless was awful and if the modules were loaded the system would crash every couple of hours. The graphics card had all sorts of issues. No sleep, no hibernate. Crappy battery life.
I've given up. Bought a Mac Book Pro 13" and it is wonderful. Has the unix I need and everything just works.
Perhaps now, but I when I was using it 4 years ago, it wasn't the easiest thing to get going. Perhaps I will check it out soon, but I'm reasonably content with my setup right now.
My reply is Offtopic, but same here. But to be fair, it only started to be this way about 2 years ago. I've also spent countless hours to configure my system to work the way i want it to.
