Yep, and Ubuntu has brough many to Linux that otherwise would have never tried Linux on the desktop. This year is definately the turning point in the desktop OS wars.
My daughter (and I) love linux... all of the four flavors we've used. So far I've not tried Ubuntu... I really don't like that name at all, for one... also, I've not seen any real reason to do so as of now.
Definitely?
I installed Ubuntu on a 533MHZ Celeron laptop I have here, with 192Meg memory.
The machine will turn on the fan if it gets hot - with Windows on it, the fan only occasionally comes on. With Ubuntu, it is on ALL THE TIME.
The mouse setup is almost completely unusable. Do a Google on Ubuntu and Mouse and you will see what I mean. It skips... then it stops. It jumps to areas of the screen I haven't even been near.
Now mouse technology is not exactly bleeding edge. I've run with a mouse on DOS 6.2 machines with no problems whatever.
Ubuntu.
Thumbs down. Not anywhere near ready for prime time.