I don't know about ideal, but, I run Ubuntu on a desktop, and Mepis on a laptop, and Mepis in my opinion is better. things that took me a long time to configure with Ubuntu worked out of the box with Mepis. Ex. Wireless card, flash player etc. And Mepis uses KDE by default. Both Distros are based on debian, and as a matter of fact since the last year or so the Mepis has been based on Ubuntu. both excellent distro, but I prefer Mepis for several reasons, not just the few that
I mentioned, but mostly because stuff just works.
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Mepis is great, if you've never tried it you should. It comes as a live cd also
I don't know about ideal, but, I run Ubuntu on a desktop, and Mepis on a laptop, and Mepis in my opinion is better. things that took me a long time to configure with Ubuntu worked out of the box with Mepis. Ex. Wireless card, flash player etc. And Mepis uses KDE by default. Both Distros are based on debian, and as a matter of fact since the last year or so the Mepis has been based on Ubuntu. both excellent distro, but I prefer Mepis for several reasons, not just the few that I mentioned, but mostly because stuff just works.