"Red Hat also commits to keeping our commercial products 100% pure open source. Even when we acquire a proprietary software company, we commit to releasing all of its code as open source."
I had no idea this was the case, pretty cool!
I spent an entire weekend setting up Ubuntu, and then wss extremely jaded when I could barely get anything to work, and even getting Flash in the browser was a huge pain in the ass. So I only use my windows side partition now, and its just easier....
Still mostly do everything on my Mac anyway
One thing that you have to remember is that what is easy and hard in Linux is different than what is easy and hard in Windows and MacOS.
Flash is one example. Since it is not Free and Open Source Software, the Linux distributions cannot redistribute it to you without risking being sued by Adobe. So if you want Flash you will need to jump some hoops.
On the other hand, if the software you want is in your distro's package repository then the installation experience blows Windows and MacOS out of the water.