im not an altcoin guy but im suddenly interested , as i can see on coinmarketcap there is ripple just after bitcoin then after it litecoin and ethereum , still isee a lotof people speaking about ethereum more then they do about ripple i just checked the website on ethereum and for some reasons i didn't understand anything , can't even find an executable file to download and if it's on beta will people lose their ether later (that's if they are storing them anywhere)
I think ripple needs so much help and support from banks and companies, because of slow development. While ether does not need it, so this really benefits from ether because it is independence, unlike Ripples. But it all depends on you, because everyone has their tastes.