One of the students at my club has an Alpha trainer that was converted to a tail dragger.

It is slightly harder to get off the ground than the trike version, but not overly so. Landing is pretty much the same either way.

If you are flying off of smooth pavement with lots of power, there might be no difference in take off, but on a grass field with bumps and holes and whatnot, trike geared planes tend to self-correct for much of it, while a taildragger can go from ok to not-ok very quickly. Depends a lot on the particular plane though.

The other day, it took 3 or 4 pilots at least 10 tries to get a particular old timer off the grass at my field. Part of the problem was the grass, part of it was the plane.