Which flavor of Ubuntu would you use in the new year 2006?

[anil_robo]

I see there are so many versions of Ubuntu now. It'll be interesting to know which one would people like to use in the coming new year 2006. Please also post the reasons for using the distro.

[RAOF]

Ubuntu. I'd like to like Kubuntu. Really, I would. KDE's composite manager looks so good, and the KDE is, in general, somewhat shinier. And there are some great KDE apps. But something about their design philosophy drives me, screaming, back into the arms of the Gnome.

[anil_robo]

I would stick with Ubuntu due to the following:
1. I've used it for over 3 months now, and I'm quite familiar with it.
2. Ubuntu receives more tech-support at forums than Kubuntu.
3. I like the philosophy of humanity! After all this is why we all exist!

However, I'll try my hands on Kubuntu during school's summer vacations!

Edit: Interestingly, Kubuntu means "towards humanity" in Bemba.

[Sokraates]

Kubuntu, because KDE is kool.

Seriously, I find Gnome harder to configure than KDE. Also Gnome's visual style doesn't suit me. Fortunately, Ubuntu has enough flavours to choose from.

Edit: anil_robo, you should link this thread to Kubuntu-forums as well.

[psychicdragon]

Xubuntu because Xfce has everything I need, without the tons of garbage I don't.

[manicka]

I use Ubuntu with kde (amarok, k3b) and xfce (xfwm4 window manager) bits thrown in.
What should I vote for?

[akiro.yamamoto]

For me it's Ubuntu...
The first One I tried..the one I fell in love with
I may however install the Xfce and Elive packages... just for variety....

[xerman]

I'll stuck with UBUNTU.

Obviously there are very good reasons:
1- Gnome Interface is far more sleek than KDE, better organized, easier to configure, less "font configuration", everything seems to be in its place. Quality, visual and usage, is better in Gnome.
2- OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape and Evolution are Gnome apps, so there's no need to change to another interface where apps won't look desktop-integrated.
3- Philosophy of simplicity deals with all that stuff.

Though there are a lot things to improve. As I haven't found yet for Gnome apps like AutoQ3D, or TaskJuggler. Hope someone comes up with a GTK-Qt wrapper to make KDE apps more Gnomish. And better support for 64bit architectures.

[DarkOra]

I originally fell in love with Gnome but I like the KDE visuals better. I use a combination of both ubuntu and kubuntu because their is different apps for each and i like the ability to have both.

[Jonne]

xubuntu, but i'll probably have kubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop (and perhaps E17) on my machine too.

I like the lightness and non-bloatedness of xfce4, but I still want to have the other desktops as backups in case I screw up one desktop, and to check out any progress the others make.