I like the 8.10 flavor. If I had to use 8.04 I would still be using Windoze. The
stable version of studio ubuntu is 8.04, I use it but only when I don't need to
connect to the net, The 8.04 OS still fails to connect on my puter using that
flavor.

I think it is wrong to say don't use a version, The best part about Ubuntu is
the number of versions you can install to see what one works best on your
machine.