Give Mint a tryit's the only distro I've used where every thing seems to work, plus they have their own software portal for installing stuffs that makes it almost as easy as windows
Ubuntu 9.10seems to have been a big step forward in hardware compatibility
I'm one SD card slot short of out-of-the-box perfection
I'm one SD card slot short of out-of-the-box perfection
Give Mint a try