Sorry to say, and I don't mean it to sound anti-chinese, but I do not like that plastic candy fancy windows 7/10 looking bar at the bottom, I am aware that the newer ubuntu versions have it, that the bar can be moved from the left side to the bottom so to speak, but I prefer the mint interface, it does not seem to get in the way as much, if you get me? Nothing personal. Also not sure how it can be any faster, unless you mean there is less to setup from the beginning? It is ubuntu, just in chinese as far as I understand it.

I am waiting for zorin os or mint 18.1, both of which are based on ubuntu.