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Originally Posted by htmljenn  It's currently the most popular, but it seems like it came on really fast, and I'm curious why I should switch from a stable distro to this new one. |
It sure came on fast, true, but it is a rather good distro.
The thought with Ubuntu is mainly licensing and human friendlyness.
Ubuntu aims to be totally free, not only for the package but the licenses too, so you'll find all the happy licenses in it (you may modify everything), unless you go for the other packages, in which case you might get limitations layed upon.
Ubuntu features rather new software too, and it's all pre-installed, so basically you'll get a brand spanking new desktop with just about all the basic software you'd want, it's all userfriendly and stuff, and you are allowed to modify it by the licenses.
So it's just for fun really, and newer software, really the kind of thing you'd expect on desktop machines. But if stability is your thing and you don't care much about having new software or extra userfriendlyness, then Debian is what you want.