Its about a month’s wait for Hardy LTS to be out. I didnt try the Alpha or the Beta, but have been reading reviews here and there and I think it should be cool.
Some people say that the desktop effects are cooler than Leopard
It comes with a unified VM Manager that supports almost everything. Virtual Box ofcourse comes with its own manager.
Increased OpenGL stablity gives you better performance for your compiz and beyrl.
Gimp is Photoshop
Blend is Maya
Firefox is there for Browsing
Pidgin is there for message
OpenOffice is there for Office. It now has 3 D effects for presentations.
Evolution and Thunderbird for Mails.
Microsoft is for people who believe they are not geeks, and linux is supposed to be for Geeks. Mac exploits the luxury computing market and dominates design.
Trust me, Linux is not geeky anymore. It has no bugs to start with, and has the least amount of troubleshooting to be done by the end user compared to windows or Mac. And, above all, its opensource, and its free. And if you are good enough, you can contribute to the development of the OS. Create manuals, bug reports, knowledgebases and even customize the desktop.
Can you do that for Windows or Mac? Nop.