[Lilux-help] ubuntu installation report

greetings, i tried ubuntu (warty warthog), and got pleasantly surprised by the ease of installation. no problem with the usb mouse (unlike debian woody), nor with the network device (unlike debian sarge which got caught in a loop, detecting my network device over and over again) and no problem either with the dvi connection of the lcd monitor (unlike fedora core 3 which suddenly went black during install or even knoppix, which only worked in framebuffer mode). as ubuntu is based on debian, i really wonder why it didn't have the same problems during install, maybe because of different versions of the installer. if you have a slow internet access, the over 100 MB of updates it downloads after installation can be painful though. unlike suse 9.1, it didn't automatically mount the windows partitions that were on the same hd, but ubuntu did recognize my usb stick automatically, something suse failed at. from my personal experience, ubuntu has been the easiest distro to install i tried yet. if others had similar positive experiences with ubuntu, i guess it could be added to the list of recommended distros for linux newbies. best regards, kymon