I have been an Ubuntu user since 2005 and been horrified by the Gnome 3 and Unity desktop disasters and I've been stuck with Ubuntu 11.04 because it's the last

I have been an Ubuntu user since 2005 and been horrified by the Gnome 3 and Unity desktop disasters and I've been stuck with Ubuntu 11.04 because it's the last release with Gnome 2. For the past 2 years I have been looking for a new desktop environment but failed to find something that would fit my basic needs until I recently tried XUbuntu again, this time version 13.10 and I must say, I'm blown away. This is what my current desktop looks like: http://i.imgur.com/BK2leWF.png http://i.imgur.com/BK2leWF.png No bells, no whistles but a plain a simple desktop for a developer to get stuff done. I absolutely love the latest Xfce release but more importantly, I have a stable distribution that's been around for quite some time so I'm confident I can use this for the next few years to come.