Eh.. I've been using Fedora since it first started, and I usually find it pretty good for most of my needs.
I own MS Office but more often than not I end up using (preferably) OpenOffice instead for document reading or
basic editing / composition. OO is a fair amount better in the new version. There are certainly rough / annoying parts
like easily supporting printing envelopes or whatever, but that is mainly a weakness of printer support / control rather than OO.
Actually printing support for UNIX is pretty horrible for most commodity USB inkjet printers with the exception of many
EPSON ESC/P models and some lucky several others. That's just the fault of the OEMs that don't document how to
use the hardware you've already paid for.
Firefox is the biggest Fedora annoyance for me; it crashes every 2-20 minutes typically under significantly heavy use; it is
much more stable under MS Windows. It is almost unusably unstable under LINUX both Ubuntu and Fedora and with
or without OEM GPU drivers in use. Sadly, Opera or Konqueror or some other browser is a much better choice
for LINUX IMHO.
I'd certainly count my blessings that I can use Kmail / Thunderbird / whatever instead of MS Outlook. Evolution is pretty
disappointing but it's getting more stable / usable over time.
Some other open source software like GIMP or F-Spot or whatever is actually pretty good and gives $50-$100
commercial photo editing / viewing software good competition.
The ACPI / power management support is getting a lot better in LINUX and Fedora. I imagine there are quite a few
laptops that are fairly well supported now with it. Probably equally good as XP or Vista anyway in most cases.
If you don't like OO there's always StarOffice or KWriter or other respectable alternatives, or even the use of some of
the internet based office suites like google's et. al.
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