It was this post that inspired me to check Ubuntu out once again, and I must say that in a couple of months time, this may become my primary operating system.

It would only be reasonable that skype updates its linux version now that Ubuntu is catching on.

And for pst first install thunderbird in windows and then use the mbox files for linux.

There is support for multiple screens but it isn’t as easy to install as windows. Need proof:
http://blog.daedeloth.be/?p=62
Here you go

It is true that Xorg doesn’t offer a way to swithc “profiles” easily and even if you do want to use different xorg.conf files, the whole login process becomes quite messy. However, I never had problems with that since, if a screen is not connected, it will simply not be registered and your desktop will become the regular “1 screener”.

Like Martin said, it takes some time to get used to Ubuntu. But honestly, I don’t miss the “oh god he crashed again” and “oh no another bluescreen” and “stupid office, give me back my document” moments. Open Office has its flaws, but one thing they are good at is recovering unsaved documents

For your DVD problem: have you tried installing k3b? It’s a really nice program (quite “Nero” – like) which writes dvd movies and such. It also has a nice wizard to fix your dvd issues (although my burn – software worked out of the box when I installed ubuntu).

And why do you have to use the command line?
Because RealPlayer doesn’t offer it’s software in the “easy to use” form. They did create an installer for Windows, but an “ubuntu package” (actually that’s a debian package, but Ubuntu stole that idea ) is not available.

I just migrated an old notebook with a Celeron 400Mhz to Xubuntu 7.04, works fine, and I’m really happy! The X-ubuntu version is the more suitable for slower and smaller environments (slow CPU, small HD, small Ram).

Just one point though: migrating Skype to Ubuntu made me loose the possibility to send SMSs, is there any patch to that?

I installed Feisty on my laptop two weeks ago and was very pleased with the fast booting and the amazing stability and speed, but when it came to productivity I faced some serious lacks of usability:

- Why do I have to use the command line when installing RealPlayer (and get error messages) and why does my printer not print PDF files? This goes for quite some tools (a VPN client, a video player, Adobe Reader…) By the way, I couldn’t install FONSPOT (sorry, I don’t remember the exact error messages).

- Another example: Why is creating a video DVD so complicated doesn’t even work (I tried qdvdauthor + dvdauthor).

- But what I disliked the most by far is the incredibly unusable multi screen support. I have two screens but of course only when I’m at my desk. Ubuntu doesn’t offer display profiles etc. and I couldn’t find a tool that provides such a feature (like UltraMon for Windows).

- The last thing I want to mention is OpenOffice. At first I thought it was an equal alternative to MS Office but when I typed my first document (which was really just a simple letter), I caused a bug by underlining (!) a word…

- Also I found booting after hibernating pretty slow (compared to WIN) and sometimes the system clock was still at the time when I switched off my computer.

So for me Ubuntu is a great system when you like to play around, really get into Linux before reaching a productive level and do not expect a real out of the box system. I am convinced that whenever it’s set up properly one will love it, but at least in my case, there’s some things to do and for the moment I’m back with a fresh and clean WIN XP installation (and looking forward to be shown that I’m wrong).

Must read:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CriticismFAQ