I've just installed an Ubuntu box on an old PC (could do with an extra 256MB, but hopefully that will be sorted later today; thanks, Matt :) )
It strikes me that, unless I'm missing something, it's not quite as user friendly as I was led to believe;
o There's no obvious way to get out system information; Device Manager will tell me it's a PIII, but not the speed. System Monitor will at least tell me the installed RAM, but again not the CPU speed.
o "Power management" is a bit of a grandiose name, given that all it will do is turn off the PC or the monitor. No disk spin-down times, fan speed controls, etc.
o There are two package managers (Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager). The former, at least, tells me when there are updates available. I don't know yet if it will include extra packages installed by the latter (e.g. Apache WWW Server). Why two in the first place?
o Disappointed that something as basic as NTP isn't installed by default. Even (spit) Windows has had this since NT4.
So, is Ubuntu not quite as ready for the mainstream as I thought, or have I missed something?
Greg