If you stop by here often or get my feed, it is probably no secret, I like Ubuntu. One of the great things about Linux is that it comes in other flavors and even people using the same distribution (“distro”) as you may have loaded a theme or customized it (see my last post) so that it look very little like your own.
If Ubuntu is not your thing, that’s fine. But don’t give up on Linux because of one experience with one distro. E-Linux.it has some (4) good Ubuntu alternatives they like along with the pros and cons they saw.