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Have to agree with this; I recently went on a big distro downloading binge, as I was sure I was missing out on something that was more modern, shinier, and had sexy features I didn't know I needed 'till I tried them.

I ended up deleting the lot. For me, Ubuntu just works, and has the features I like, is well supported, and has a strong community.

I satisfied myself with a new theme and desktop background. Then again, I also drive a Camry :)

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I've been using KDE neon which actually works very well. The core of it is LTS Ubuntu (currently 16.04), but the Plasma DE gets updates pretty much every day and KDE apps get updated about once a week. Except for one time when my proprietary nvidia driver stopped working after a big update to the DE (now I use the nouveau driver), it has been pretty much flawless in terms of stability.

Hmm, looks interesting. I use KDE on Kubuntu 16.04, but have been annoyed by some memory leaks in Plasma that eventually cause Plasmashell to lock up at 100% CPU in the Qt GC system.

I tried upgrading via the ppa backports but the updated Plasma broke a ton of things. Given that my demands on the DE are really minimal it made me consider switching off of KDE.

Same, I downloaded practically every major distro over the last month as research for what to put on my new Thinkpad.

Once the new machine arrived this week, I just stuck Ubuntu on it and deleted everything else.

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