This week I felt especially unproductive and part of the reason was because my current KDE ArchLinux configuration felt over the top buggy and unpleasant. FireFox does not know what applications to open on downloads or dolphin's theme has the address bar overlapping with toolbar icon or HAL's permissions just would not work properly and let me mount other partitions without using sudo.  This is mostly due to me not taking enough time to configure every thing properly as expected in the Arch way.  So this morning I thought I would go back to my old style about 4 years ago when I used Kubuntu and for the most part accepted what was given by mainstream packagers.  Only this time I went extreme and went for Ubuntu with Gnome so everything is predefined for me by mainstream.  I know Ubuntu is very customizable, but for this experiment I wanted to stick as much as possible to the applications given and not modify anything. I wanted to see how well Canonical folks learned to get the desktop right out of the box for average user who needs to do business with minimal configuration time.