It's a very good system, it hardly has any incompatibility issues for the normal user, it runs much smoother than Vista, and it has a lot of neat security features. Overall, it's what Vista should've been.

I've been using it since beta myself, and I'm very very pleased.

Never the less, I suggest you use Ubuntu if you're not gonna be playing any games or use any programs that might have incompatibility issues. The gaming issue is all that is holding me back from going Ubuntu really.