Consider Super Ubuntu. It is a version of Ubuntu that includes additional extra stuff that many people install anyway.

Here is a wiki page about it.

And you can download an ISO here. (That web site might make a little noise.)

I have not tried it. If you do, let me know how it goes.

Have you read the breakthrough novel of the year? When you are done with that, try:

In Search of Sungudogo by Greg Laden, now in Kindle or Paperback
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