I've been using Linux since 1999. Yeah, it's been that long but I still consider myself a newbie. My first Linux distro was Slackware (using diskette installation hehehe). Sir Derick Natividad convinced me to try it out. When I was doing my senior project, I bought an original copy of SuSE Linux 6.3 (because I thought I was rich! HAHA). The distro was quite good actually. After a year, I found Mandrake, fell in love with it and used it for more than 2 years. Then I missed Slackware so I decided to try it out one more time! Got the Slackware 10.0 & 10.1 of their release. It was the official Linux distro for my good old Toshiba Tecra 8100. Now the lappy is not working (mobo problem anyone wants to buy a laptop with bad mobo??? hehe). November last year, I decided to try out CentOS as a desktop. I installed it on my new lappy (ASUS A3e 1.7Ghz 256MB). It was quite good but I had to install XFCE because it's more lighter and faster then Gnome.
So where is ubuntu? It was only last week that I decided to install xubuntu Linux and make it the "official Linux" operating system for my laptop. So far I am completely satisfied with it! It took me almost 2 years before I convinced myself to use Ubuntu (based) system! Don't get me wrong. I got two (2) Ubuntu "ship-it" CD packages. I gave of the CD's to my friends. I did try booting the Live-CD but maybe because I was so much in love with Slackware, I didn't mind Ubuntu at all 
I still love Slackware though. So far soo good for xubuntu! So is there such a thing called "the greatest Linux distro". My answer is YES! There are lots of them . That is the good thing about open source. You have a lot of choices and most of them are for FREE! Hell yeah!
