Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Adam Funk]

On 2011-06-28, Avi wrote:

> ANDY wrote:
>
>> The issue isn't just about resisting change a new interface.  The
>> problem is that it seems forced by Canonical rather than an option
>> for the user.
>
> The change is being forced by the demise of Gnome 2, not Canonical.
> Canonical, being the distributor, picked where to change to and chose
> Unity.
>
> Gnome 2 is an option for the user in 11.04, but wont be come 11.10. All
> the other DEs will still be available, though.

What others are supported and work well?  I used to use XFCE in
Xubuntu, but I had to abandon it (to GNOME) a few years ago because a
lot of apps were no longer working well in it.

ISTR that XFCE had really good focus-stealing prevention, which I
still miss in GNOME.