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bye bye ubuntu, but what to get?
if you want everything to "just work" then you want ubuntu.
If you want to not be a sissy little girl and actually learn something other than bad habits, then install gentoo, or debian.
Fedora is ok and all. .but largely they're just turning it into a test bed for RHEL, so it has a lot of the drawbacks nonof the perks.
I'd recommend either Debian or Gentoo (or Mandriva, if you want a hint of "just workage" without all the crap of ubuntu). Mandriva is what i recommend to linux newbies.
Or LFS snigger