If you have one of these mowers, how do you like it over the garden tractor
style ?

No comparison! I traded my John Deere in for a Dixon ZTR, and my
mowing time went from 4 hours to 1.5 hours.

I paid $4000 for my Dixon. I would rather have a front-mounted deck,
because I have lots of evergreens and low crabtrees. But from what
I've seen, front-mounted ZTR's are $6000 and up.

You will not regret a ZTR. The lever control is intuitive and
effortless. You will regret a slow-moving, large-turning-radius lawn
tractor. I know I did.

My rich friend just bought a behemoth Grasshopper commercial-grade
mower with a 60" deck for his 1 acre lawn. If you have a big pile of
money and nothing to spend it on, that thing is incredible. :-)