I think I've heard/read the name Ducknote once and Monero is so far the number 1 Cryptonote coin out there.

So I would say Monero for now, the coin has a great community, great devs, no premine/instamine, good distribution and quite a lot of haters here as you might have seen in this subforum.

It's already pretty popular even without an official GUI wallet and therefore hard to use for the average Joe. A lot of haters talk about the blockchain bloat but in my opinion it isn't a big issue because it simply isn't, also in the future people will use light wallets anyways.

And IIRC blockchain bloat is already reduced quite a lot and will be reduced more in the near future.