The atom repo https://github.com/atom/atom has installation instructions for Linux and Windows. Just installing it on Ubuntu to give it a try.

Recommended Ubuntu LTS 12.04 is too old, now that next LTS, 14.04 is already out.

Which version of Ubuntu did you use ? Howz the experience ?

I use 14.04 and ran into this issue https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1946 like several others. Adding the following symlink fixed it:

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

Now that it runs, it feels pretty responsive and you can customize a lot of stuff. I haven't used for coding yet, but will try it out for that in the next few days.

It wasn't too painful to get running on Windows. Main pain points where making sure I had the correct versions of all of the dependencies installed.