24 Hours with Ubuntu

I've now been running Ubuntu on two computers for 24 hours.  Here are my thoughts.

Most things work better than on any other distro I've ever used (including older versions of Ubuntu).  My laptop is a Thinkpad and it's been known to have some funky hardware.  My desktop is pretty high-end with an Nvidia graphics card.  Here's a list of things that work better in Ubuntu than they did in OpenSUSE:

• The volume keys (sometimes they worked in OpenSUSE but usually they didn't)
  
• Two-finger scrolling
• A single installation gave me flash, mp3, java, realplayer, quicktime, and windows media support.
• Easy support for my Nvidia card
• Gkrellm (the classic system monitor, not supported on OpenSUSE any more)
• Google Chrome (never worked in OpenSUSE, not even with Wine)
• Cairo-dock (although now I'm using Gnome-Do's built-in dock; it's simpler but works fine on my low-end laptop)
• Ram management (was always maxed out in OpenSUSE)
• Desktop menu bar
• Fingerprint scanner
• Unified UI appearance
• Video player (Totem worked out of the box and Kaffeine didn't . . . probably had something to do with PulseAudio which even the programmer said wasn't production-ready.  VLC is great but it's also nice to have something built-in that WORKS.)
• Ubuntu Software Center: Doesn't have all the apps but is ridiculously easy to use
  

Here's what didn't work as well:

• Flash out of the box (until I applied this fix)
• SSH out of the box
  
• Nautilus isn't as powerful as Konqueror
• Scroll button on my Thinkpad

Bottom line: I'm happy with Ubuntu.  I kinda miss KDE but they lost me when they took away my desktop menu bar.  KDE doesn't give me what I need any more, and Ubuntu is young, good looking and vivacious.

J<