I do have to admit that, not counting the N800, it is much more friendly than the last time I fiddled with Linux. The screen resolution problem is a deal breaker though, In order to get rid of the horizontal scroll bar in Firefox I had to zoom out twice. Now my old eyeballs can barely read what I'm typing!
The Evolution PIM looks like a pretty good alternative to Outlook, but I haven't figured out how to use more than one email account. Maybe multiple instances of Evolution?