I wonder what "basic task" you're talking about ?
If it's normal tasks like many other people: music, mail, web browsing, video, IM, you will find no different with windows. I'm using Thunderbird, Chrome, VLC, Pidgin, Banshee and all of them work almost the same on 2 system.
When it comes to flash, in my opinion Flash in Ubuntu (using 64bit lab flash) is sucks, but when I switch to Windows at work, I found that Flash in Windows sucks too. Flash in Ubuntu works just fine, Chrome have flash and PDF viewer embed
Find software ? Is it your joke ? Any Linux distro has Software centre or some thing like that, it's even better in Ubuntu with theirs, install software with .deb is just like install .msi in windows (except many Next button).
I don't want to start a flamewar about Linux vs Windows, but your experience with Linux is too old, grab a modern Linux distro and change your mind.

What ? Clearly Amazon have their right to get Google approved, just because the standard is public.

Chrome has Adblock; firebug and flashblock(or plugin block) built-in or you can get other alternative from web store; xmarks, Noscripts has something like NotScripts, but I don't find any reason to use it.

Can you carry your computer, check mail and play 3D games when you're taking a bus ?

I got increase from around 3.2 -> 5.2 Mflops with CyanogenMod 7 (from CM6->CM7, the stock rom only got ~1Mflops).
Performance is super, but there's a few little bug left.
And btw, my phone is HTC WIldfire

They have one, Apperance. Y U No choose another theme?

Hey I'm from Vietnam, and I can play game all night if I want, hust keep out of those Internet Cafe. The goverment banned gaming in "Internet Cafe" late night, as they did a long time ago banned Internet Cafe to open late night.

I will write a new blog platform that support html-r87384. Wordpress will become obsolete

No matter who loses, we will have a new generation of zombie, the one who fly and drink blood, but never die omg

>>New in version 2.0: Ads are actually blocked from downloading now, instead of just being removed after the fact!
Am I misunderstanding or something wrong with Adblock system ?

You forgot about the password and open tabs sync. And the ability to backup the bookmark across multi browsers.

Me too, been using lynx + flash for a long time and no problem at all. No crashes, no flash freezes.

They're just getting rid of Mono

I'm living in VietNam, and I think the article have some misleading
The government only require the Internet Cafe have a server that install a Internet cafe management software accepted by the government, although the accepted list isn't issued yet, but they don't force the Internet Cafe to install any software. It's mostly to prevent student to access porn and some other blacklisted site in Internet Cafe.
I think it's fine, because most internet cafes are using one, like Vinagame's CSM

Yeah I think you should build a GUI Interface using Visual Basic to see if you can track the IP address...oh wait