I decided install 10.4 LTS and that I would stay with it.
(3 years of support)

It is now stable , without any bugs that worry me,so no need to upgrade.

Well I am pleasantly surprised.
Did a fresh install and it detected my dual screens without problem (a first for any linux for me)
I doesn't feature any easy way to tell it to auto-mount storage drives (ext2) but listing the drives in fstab did work on this distro :)

Lets hope they've fixed some of the simple annoying 'features' of previous releases.
Such as screen detection. Since doing away with xorg.conf Ubuntu re-detects your screen every time it boots. Resetting your screen res after every boot up gets old very quickly. (yes I know you can still use an xorg.conf but we shouldnt have to)
Hopefully it will also have the ability to auto-mount non-system drives as well, rather than requiring the user to do so after every boot. (I've put them into mtab & fstab but they still dont automount )

Dont worry about the bling, get it working properly...

Tried the live disk. Scrapped it because of the intolerable screen flicker. Mepis runs perfectly, not a time to change.

Of course for many users Ubuntu is enough, but I am not the case -- my camera and scanner do not work, and vast majority of applications does not work on Linux, starting with dictionaries (from Polish company, PWN).

I have to admit, it is a fine secondary system, but until Canonical put some money to develop the whole infrastructure (system+database+IDE+books) it would be cute addition to web browsing and watching movies.

Anyway, I am very happy that at least one company from Linux world pays attention to desktop, even Novell with its distro didn't achieve this.