I definitely prefer ByteCoin and duckNote over Monero.

It has to do with the devs, community and the coins' brandings for my choices.  Noob geniuses love to yell "premined LOL!OL!!!!111" at ByteCoin, while the people who actually do their research sit quietly mining and buying with confidence.  I'm not here to convince anyone because it's a lost cause--there are fanboys for every altcoin now, so half of the people "investing" in altcoins have no idea what they are investing in and just jump on the hype train.  That's the case with DogeCoin, that's definitely the case with DarkCoin, and possibly Monero (although I just think their branding, logo, name, and devs are terrible).

I see the Shibisms more and more every day in these coins' communities, and all I can do is laugh or pray for their naivety.  Half of the people here can't even get their numbers straight for how much ByteCoin was mined before the "public release" as they are too concerned with branding it "premined"--a cancerous word in cryptoland.  Most fail to understand that bitcoin is 60% mined already and that most altcoins have a very high percentage of ownership by a very few addresses.

To each their own.  IMO ByteCoin and duckNote are the real deal, in their own special ways.