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And, of course, each release of Red Hat Linux supports more hardware than the one before it.

My experience tells me otherwise, and many other reviews extant support my position.
Red Hat 9 supposedly supports the ancient ATI Mach64, but I couldn't perform a graphical installation because my laptop's LCD display isn't supported. I tried generic LCD display, and all I got was a bright white display plus a fringe of red at the edges. Nice.
It's funny that last time I tried Red Hat it did something quite similar, but ONLY after that aggravating package selection routine. Red Hat is well versed in creating anger and hatred. Don't piss me off immediately, no, that'd be too easy. Wait until I've wasted an hour poring over thousands of duplicate programs and command line crap I'll never use, and THEN spring the trap. All too clever.
Linux propagates only because misery loves company.
After installation, there is no power management whatsoever. Zip. Nada. My BIOS is an ancient APM unit, which is nice because Red Hat still doesn't support the quite-old-now ACPI standard. All I want to do is dim my laptop's standard XGA-resolution LCD display, but that's beyond the abilities of Red Hat Linux 9. I suspect that power management features do not exist for Linux, but who can be sure? With creative program naming as exhibited by grip, PAN and less, plus thousands of other unintuitively-named specimens, one can never tell simply by name what a program is to be used for. The descriptions that the installer provides are generally useless unless you have previously experienced a Red Hat installation and suffered the default installation options.
Carefully note that USB devices, like portable MP3 players and USB drives, and cameras too, can't be accessed reliably since the device namespace is hooped by design. Unplug, and your device loses its mounted position so that the next time you plug it in, any links to that device will need to be updated MANUALLY - unless, of course, you only have one USB device. WTF.
For those still waiting for a central Control Panel-like app, your search is not yet done. Obviously proponents of decentralized controls will be pleased, but for the other 99% of computer users this is a major failing.
Side note: all fonts are - well, my text looks smeared with vaseline, so I guess you'd call that "anti-aliased." How obnoxious. The good news it that this AA doesn't intrude on Evolution, which is the best email app I've ever used. Outlook is nothing compared with it.
Web browsing: Mozilla has some very unique middle-click functionality - sends me to the default Red Hat Home Page, despite the fact that I've changed the home page to the Register. Why? I've set the middle-click to open new tabs when I middle-click on links, but when I middle-click anywhere else I go to the useless Red Hat page cached on my disk. Am I supposed to tweak it? Replace this file? WTF? In Opera (or IE, for that matter) I can scroll smoothly when I middle-click on an empty space. Even Mozilla on Win32 behaves semi-appropriately. Since it takes ten seconds to load this sucker, I won't be doing much with Mozilla anyways.. what a pig.
I dare any Red Hat user to make the taskbar smaller, to make more usable space. Why is so much room devoted to a few icons? Who knows.
The "Preferences," "System Settings," and "System Tools" should be consolidated into one bloody menu, but that's darned near impossible to do. Why didn't Red Hat consolidate this stuff into a Control Panel? No, that'd make it too easy, and therefore useful.
Side note: click on "Control Center" in the "Preferences" menu, and you will get a window holding many of the settings, including an icon labeled "Control Center." Nice! You can finally access the Control Center! Except, when you click it, you'll get kicked into a duplicate window with the same old crap. Welcome to the magic of recursive linking at its best. The least somebody could have done is to LABEL THE DAMNED WINDOW "CONTROL CENTER" to at least provide a clue that you've have already found the fscking thing, instead of endlessly hunting for an application which apparently doesn't exist. Either rip out the icon for "Control Center," rename it to "Preferences," or INCLUDE the fscking application called "Control Center." Honestly, how hard would that be? I'll bet it's plenty difficult.