chances are, the people who have made this switch(as I have,2 weeks running ubuntu(mind you it took several botched attempts at setting myself a proper partition size and swap, but i got through it)) are not making the switch because they think this is a way to run their windows programs 'better' i am assuming 95% of all people who switch to linux of any variant are doing so at the urging(and with the support) of close friends and family. ubuntu being my own personal experience(last install of linux i tried was redhat circa 1998-99) and my experience was several orders of magnitude better. compiz is the bomb, i dont honestly think i have been more pleased with a system, considering my pc would struggle at best to install a basic version of vista, i am quite pleased, my internet experience on the whole has increased, on windows when i would max my incoming bandwidth i would be experiencing disconnects and poor connectivity from other applications, none of these issues thus far in ubuntu, and i've noticed my upstream is on average 50-60K/sec faster, there are decent equivalents for just about any program i use, the only exception is that i run a virtual machine for apps i am not ready to let go of yet, mIRC (i spent all those years learning to script it i am not throwing that away) and convertxtodvd which i have not found a decent alternative to as of yet, i havent gone the WINE route as i feel it would be counter-productive to what I am trying to accomplish with the switch.
any thoughts?