Desktop OS: To be or not to be...

[Smokin Chevy]

Well, I will not profess to be an expert but am not completely green.  Most
my my experience has come from running FreeBSD since 5.0 was first
released.  I have run a few linux boxes over the years but mostly FreeBSD.
My workstations have almost always been windows for my main ones and a few
Linux / Macs as secondary in my line of priority.  I started switching my
servers to CentOS about a year and a half ago and really started pushing to
Ubuntu Server about six months ago.

Anyway, I finally switched my main desktop to Ubuntu 64bit Desktop.  I would
have to say after a week of running it that I do not think that Ubuntu is
fully up to speed to be a desktop OS.  Atleast not past a standard desktop
computer.  My biggest complaint is that in order to drag a window across my
four LCDs I have to enable Xinerama.  Xinerama is not compatible with compiz
so there goes any visual effects including the proper display of Docky.  I
posted on here asking if anyone had any work arounds and I never got a
response so I would have to assume that this problem is just accepted with
no resolution.  Other quirkiness appears from time to time.  I may have the
audio unmuted and it will display so in 2 or three monitors and the others
will show in the panel that the sound is muted.  I can have a Screenlets
daemon icon on one monitor but none of the others so it requires going
through the menu to add a widget to a desktop.  To top it off about 20
minutes ago I tried highlighting something that I had typed on google and
the mouse started spastically fluttering around three of the four screens
like little gnats.  The digital clock stopped and froze.  I knew at that
point that X had left the building.  The lights were on but nobody was home.

My thoughts are that Ubuntu is probably the closest and being mainstream
desktop ready but they just aren't quite there yet.

Anyone with constructive thoughts?
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