Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala is the best, snappiest and slickest desktop Linux to date. It is easier to install, boots faster and steps up to the plate of automatically detecting and configuring hardware and peripherals. It is faster and more efficient in its use of resources, allowing you to have more and larger files and applications open at the same time without impacting performance, thus raising the bar significantly in terms of stability, flexibility and power. Pretty much everything just works and installation and configuration tasks can be accomplished simply and quickly for the most part using intuitive GUI tools.