I am going through the transition period of evaluating which distro I am going to switch to, on my laptop. sidux has been good to me, but I have to change. I am currently evaluating Ubuntu lucid. I left Ubuntu hardy because of stability issues with my Broadcom card, but that seems to have been fixed. My Canon Powershot A470 works with F-spot on Ubuntu but not sidux (the camera didn't work with anything on sidux). Finally, I will be using the 32-bit version because the douche bags at Adobe stopped supporting Flash on 64-bit Linux (I'll rant about those cocksuckers later).
I installed Ultimate Edition 2.7, and now I have the full suite of GNOME, KDE, XFCE and LXDE applications to choose from. Hurray! The first thing I am doing is installing fluxbox and wicd. The WM is a personal preference, but I cannot understand why GNOME, Ubuntu or anyone else would continue to use gnome-network-manager, when wicd is clearly the easiest graphical networking tool (ceni is the easiest text-based one).
As for the other applications, there are some that I will not replace (transmission, Firefox, and Kontact), and there are some that may not make the cut (Exaile, Bluefish). I may go back to a full-blown desktop, but I will probably stick with good old fluxbox. We'll see.
Update: I tried Ubuntu 10.04. It seems more complicated that when I last used it (Hardy). I'll give Mepis AntiX a try. That comes with fluxbox and icewm, along with a bunch of applications that have one thing in common; they are light. I'll add the heavy stuff myself.
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