If you want to use a distro that is bloated, then go ahead and use gutsy. Ubuntu used to be a nice distro that just made everything easy to run. Today its became a bloated mess. I would much prefer to use debian over ubuntu today. I do know what I am doing though and ubuntu is not really designed for people who know what they are doing. But what do I know? I've stopped using Linux as my primary machine and switched to a Mac. My reason: time. With Linux you have to spend a ton of time tweaking every little setting to get it just right. On a mac everything works without the hassle. Yet, it has all of the power of *NIX in the background.