You are speaking of 8.04?

First crack out of the box, 8.04 configured my geforce video, my
internet, and my sound card correctly, with no intervention from me.
Which is a good thing because being a real newbie (this is my first
install), I would have had no idea how to get the internet connect
going and would have flailed about quite a bit. I didn't try kubuntu
8.04, may try that next.