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Tried Unity and didn't like it so...

Running 11.10, replaced unity with xmonad on laptop. Running kubuntu (kde 4.8 ppa) or xfce on desktop computer depending on the mood.

I still think that KDE is the best (and improving) desktop environment for Linux but for older machines xubuntu/xfce is probably a good substitute.

The reason I use [xk]ubuntu is that I like the debian package system but with the somewhat more up to date packages.

I still run some gentoo machines, some for many years, but the pain of compiling stops to be funny after a while so I run it only on servers now.