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Lubuntu is mainstream for low power machines. It is based on Ubuntu.. basically Ubuntu light.
No I have not commented on other linux distros.. big difference. Now take Mint.. the main distro I use. It has its issues, and is buggy depending on which version you get your hand on. It has battery power issues (like most Linux distros) and setting up the basics like changing your desktop picture randomly from your own picture archive... until recently... you had to install a 3rd party program to do it, one that at first was not even found in the package manager. I know it is a minor issue, but it is just one of many. Like accessing a windows network for shared files.. not exactly plug and play is it now..
Now Ubuntu is just a mess with its Unity UI.. hate hate hate it. SUSE is a classic, along with Debian, but they are for experts more than novice users.
I aint no Linux nerd by any stretch, but as a more than novice user of Linux, I find lots of stuff annoyingly hard to do in Linux relative to Windows. The very fact that a lot of the help out there, requires you to use the terminal tells me that Linux is only for nerds.
Unity... I was staunchly against it. It grew on me. I really like unity now. Basically years ago when they started unity it was for a vision to do cross platform OS' that look and act the same. Windows is just doing it now with their win8. You can get an ubuntu phone, tablet and desktop and it will all look the same. Furthermore, you can get an ubuntu phone, usb it to a laptop, reboot and make it boot off your phone and it becomes your laptop's OS software and hardware right there. Pretty neat stuff.
You will conform. Conform... CONFORM!!!!!!! Conform to Unity you conformist.