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I don't want to sound over zealous in defense of my favorite OS, but I want to point out that some of those problems have nothing to do with being Ubuntu's fault.

It would be nice to make things (such as the download and disk resizing) more user friendly. I have no problem with it the way it is, but I can understand how someone without any Linux experience could be intimidated.

However, you have your hardware vendors to thank for 5 and 7. Since they don't publish specs on their hardware so that the open source community can develop competent drivers, it has to default to the VESA driver until you download the proprietary one from ATI. That driver can't be installed by default because of copyright and open source traditions that frown upon relying on proprietary software in a distro. Same for the Broadcom, however there is progress being made with some firmware drivers there.

Suspend is an issue, I'll give you that. But as for the inability to remove the CD to restart, I've never had that problem. It always ejects the CD for me and asks me to remove it and hit enter to restart.