It was a dark stormy night in 2005. A stranger in a trench coat approached
and handed me a CD. I no longer had to fight the benign little issues nor
did I have to put any effort in to make my laptop run Linux. Alas I have
been using derivatives of Ubuntu ever since. I used Kbuntu for years then
they decided to move to KDE 4 which lacked my ability to like it.
I switched over to gnome and we have become good friends. Ok lets get to the
point. I am getting a new laptop today and I am debating of weather I should
stick with Ubuntu who has never done me wrong or do I try something new.  I
have no issues from a technical or moral standpoint with Ubuntu and am happy
to use it until I do. That being said It has been almost 6 years and there
have been many new distros born and old ones brought up to par so I would
like feed back. I do wish to stay in the Debian family tree but outside of
that I am open to suggestions.

-- 
James Finstrom