I am only a newcomer to Ubuntu, insomuch as I have dabled with it for the past
few months.
It seems to me, reading through various comments both on this group and others
that if everyone who had problems, gave up on Ubuntu, then there would be no
point in the software writers devoting their time and to get a really workable
piece of software and could go about doing other things.
I for one am truly grateful to these chaps who develop Ubuntu and other
operating systems, it takes real brains, something that I do not possess, to
write and test software and understand all the various infrastructures and
protocols.

Gentlemen, I take my hat off to you.

I am sure that in time, software writers in general will write software that can
be used on numerous platforms as well as Windoze!!!

I hope Lisa, this helps to convince you why you should stick with it.