I can happily recommend Kubuntu. For those thinking that it's not stable, it is. Kubuntu (or more precise KDE) is stable since 10.10, so those rant's are over.

I can happily recommend Kubuntu. For those thinking that it's not stable, it is. Kubuntu (or more precise KDE) is stable since 10.10, so those rant's are over. For those thinking that GTK applications can't fit in KDE, there's a new GTK Theme oxygen-gtk which gives the same look and feel to them. Also there is QtCurve, etc etc... And the notifications from GTK applications are shown as native KDE notifications. All of them are on one place. KDE is a usable environment, highly configurable and for those saying "it's too bloated and full of glossy things yada yada" if you spend half an hour you can make it as minimalist as you wish. I use Kubuntu on a daily basis, and I use a lot of GTK apps in it too, including GIMP, DeaDBeeF, Firefox, etc etc... And, one of the most noteworthy things in the new Kubuntu are the new Muon Package Manager - something of a Kubuntu alternative of the new Ubuntu Software Center, and second, a package named Low-Fat Settings can be installed, with settings for computers with lower performance. More on this stuff here: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/11.10-release http://www.kubuntu.org/news/11.10-release