Keir Thomas’ article on the Top 7 Reasons People Quit Linux does reflect the reasons of most of my friends and colleagues who have tried it at least once in their lives.
The top reason in the article is “Linux doesn’t run a program I use.” And as much as there are many free and open source software out there, people have special needs and for that, special software is needed. Our graphics team in the office need the Adobe Creative Suite. They did try GIMP but it just didn’t cut it for them. This causes so …read more

Just curious. What’s it like for you?
Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something?
Drop by and let us know here on New Linux User.;)
Edit: Sorry I had a typo! It’s Ubuntu 8.04 indeed. Thanks for the comments.