xUbuntu really is one of the better polished distros. When I had a spare laptop, I tried some distrohopping on it. Little quirks existed in most distros but it

xUbuntu really is one of the better polished distros. When I had a spare laptop, I tried some distrohopping on it. Little quirks existed in most distros but it just felt like xUbuntu was the most (for the lack of better words) sane overall. Everything I'd change in XFCE on another distro was essentially what xUbuntu had configured by default. The only thing I've had to do after installation, aside from installing my apps from repos, is to add the Mainline PPA and update the kernel to newest just to take advantage of newer kernel drivers for some of my hardware. Other than that, everything is there and everything works.