Ok, so not all of these so-called features are particular to Ubuntu (most are Gnome features), but having switched from XP, these are the little things that I am enjoying about running Ubuntu on my machine:

Rollover Music: Place mouse over mp3 file icon and the file begins to play… magically!

All of the Programs that are easy to install & free: Synaptic Package Manager or sudo apt-get are simple and straight forward. Installing new software doesn’t mean a two day detour for a newbie like myself, as it might with another linux distribution. My favorites are Gimp (which runs better on linux than XP), Vi, OpenOffice Math and Text Editor (with tabbed browsing). And there are more out there to try!

File Preview: Previewing files in Ubuntu is much easier than in XP. Text, PowerPoint and pdf file icons show you what the first couple of lines or first slide or first page.

Yep that’s it.

Anyone have any other cool Ubuntu-isms?

UPDATED: Oh, yeah I forgot because it is so intuitive… breadcrumb file navigation. In the file explorer, your location is listed and each folder name in the list is a link to that folder. Very nice.