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I have been very happy with my Ubuntu for the last two years, but I have always kept an eye out for Mandriva. Even though I haven't installed Mandriva I have known it since the Mandrake days and I respect their work and input. It is a good distro. I actually choose to use Ubuntu mainly for other reasons than the technical. Security and necessary updates come promptly, very good service. That being said Ubuntu 8.04 is rock solid for me, with very good performance, happy with the default desktop, nice fonts, so easy to get the codecs, fonts etc. Was just two actions, download Ubuntu Restricted Extras, and enable medibuntu repositories, and the flash was installed via a firefox popup. That was all that was needed to get full multimedia ability and the fonts as well. Piece of cake. BTW, Linux needs marketing, and as a user I understand this and want to see more of it.

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