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Originally Posted by piquant  It seems to me that the lack of Adobe Flash is a serious defect, but leaving that aside, I'm trying to determine how much of a trauma Ubuntu would be for a Mac lover with absolutely no PC experience? |
Let me clarify. The lack of Adobe Flash is only on the
PowerPC port of Ubuntu (or any other GNU/Linux distribution ported to PowerPC for that matter). All x86 versions of GNU/Linux can run Adobe Flash. There is a GNU/Linux version of Adobe Flash available on Adobe's site and in each distribution's respective repositories. For 64-bit x86, there is an alpha of Flash Player 10 that runs natively on x86_64. I've used it and I'm quite surprised at how well it runs even though it is alpha software.
As for the experience when coming from the Mac, that's subjective. There have been people that have tried it and enjoyed the experience, while there are others that find the desktop environments available in GNU/Linux to be very lacking compared to OS X's Finder. It all depends on your perception.