Star Desktop Linux: The Final Hurdles; Editorial Follows
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
Linux "Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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Not bad
by Anonymous on Tue 9th Nov 2004 21:17 UTC

Nothing too revolutionary, but a pretty good article overall.
In reply to a couple of items from your list:

6) Yes! It's bloody awful... no doubt there's some method of keeping the floating windows on top of the picture (but not on top of _everything_) but I haven't found it yet. Hence when enormous 4000-pixel-square image is maximised, I can't see any of my tools...

7) I actually found bluetooth easier under Linux; quite a different situation to yours though. All I wanted to do was push a few files at my phone; in Windows this precipitated Explorer crashes and all sorts of badness.
The synchronisation software didn't work at all, and of course in true Windows fashion I'm not allowed to configure anything for it so that's a lost cause. It won't work under Linux either, but at least SonyEricsson never got my hopes up that it would.

9) Often this comes down to the BIOS; my laptop's got a subtly buggy table, but some are much worse. Basically the Linux ACPI implementation seems to be much stricter than the Windows one - I can't help but feel that while standards compliance is a good thing, it'd be nice if it just worked...
Suspend to RAM seems to be a total disaster too, which is a bit nasty.

10) Yep. No argument here. My desktop does things properly, having a proper Sound Blaster; my laptop has an Intel chipset and it's one sound at a time. Which isn't the worst of it; the worst bit is XMMS refusing to play because something is "blocking" the sound card.