My printer was easy to hook up to Ubuntu. Took just a minute on the computer it was connected to and my other computer found it on the network. No problem.
My wireless network works fine. Both on the desktop and my old laptop that runs OpenSUSE.
I really enjoy the compiz cube and wobbly windows. I can't live without it, I die a little inside if my windows don't wobble.
As for "windows clone", that's only on the surface. And I might be a little unimaginative but I really can't imagine it looking much different. You have windows and menus that are skinnable... Both windows and Linux offer quite dynamic skinning now I think, how different can it be?
There's one thing I really love about linux though, concerning the visual. Popups! On windows when I got a meesage on IM or a systray bubble it snapped me out of fullscreen apps and demanded all my attention. Which of course could be a matter of life and death in action games.
In Ubuntu, popups don't force themselves on me. They just show themselves calmly in the background and I can respond to them at my convenience.
Then of course there's the whole security thing. Linux has the concept called "root" that always requires password. So the core of your system can't be accessed without your expressed approval. This means your system is designed to be safe from attacks from the ground up.
Windows on the other hand seems to try implementing something they say is like the concept of root. But in practice it's useless. Not to mention Microsoft is incredibly disrespectful to their customers' integrity in general.
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