[jamespcole]

Personally i like elementary OS quite a lot, i've been a long time Ubuntu user but i am not really a fan of the new Unity UI and wanted something nice and light for my dev box. It feels snappier than the default Ubuntu install but has the Ubuntu app store so i can just install any apps that i need that aren't present in the default install. The layout is very similar to how i usually set up ubuntu anyway so it seemed like a good option. Also being Ubuntu based setting up a LAMP dev environment takes about 15 minutes including the package downloads.

There are only 2 things i dislike:

1. It looks too much like OSX, i personally prefer dark themes, so I changed it from elementary theme to elegant gnome

2. Midori, it feels super alphaish, it has potential but there is no way i would have included it as the default browser considering it seems to only be about 80% finished.