To Maked Speeds

I'm currently looking into Linux and Ubuntu has caught my eye. However, I've noticed that Xubuntu appears to be the same thing, but lighter on resources. If Xubuntu is so much faster, why is Ubuntu more popular? It doesn't sound like their are more features. Am I missing something?

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My machine will have enough memory to handle either of them.
Ahem, Gnome with Liferea, Gaim and some deamons running (beagle, samba) uses around 120 MB of RAM. Even 256 MB would be enough, if you play to actually USE the swap-partition. If you have >512 MB of RAM then there's no need to be worried