Reply #1: I've been running the alpha/beta releases for a couple of months.

[Kutjara]

It's been excellent. Fast, stable, nice features, desktop eyecandy that blows Windows and OS X off the map; it's pretty much got it all.

The perennial bugbear, getting wireless networking set up, is much improved (but there's still room for more - which will be coming in the next release in October).

I've pretty much moved over to Linux for all my computing, and much prefer the freedom and flexibility it gives me. Not to mention the better protection from malware and other online nastiness. And, of course, the wonderful sense of liberation from the clutches of Redmond.