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[all variants] Re-installing Ubuntu and not sure on which flavor I should try next

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have been using Ubuntu for the past year or two and I am not sure which desktop environment or flavor to use when I do this in a few days. I personally like KDE better however I have had issues with it in the past for example anacron starting over and over and over again and the only way for me to stop this from happening was to make a startup script that has pkill anacron about 30 times in it. This is the kind of thing I want to avoid in the future. I started getting used to Unity however I really don't like it that much. From the screenshots it looks like the MATE desktop is pretty m (Hardware)

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