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I have used
SUSE, did not like too many do it for you things that you never could figure out what they where doing. It stopped me really learning how to do stuff, however that was a few years ago and a friend now uses it. He recommends it for wireless support. Not very good documentation / comunity
REDHAT, similar impression to SUSE did not get on with it.
Slackware, good but did not like the package management system, plus it can be (at least it was for me when I tried it) a little old school. Still runs 2.4 kernel and some installation instructions require a boot 3.5" disk to be made, but I think that was just the old box I was using at the time. Good documentation / community.
Gentoo. Great package management but can take some time to install. It can give you a nice fast system though and is very customizable. Excellent documentation / community.
Installed debian but never really used it good package management again. Good documentation never used the community but have been told you just get told to read the fing man page. May be hearsay
Never used ubuntu but only hear good things. Stable easy to use for beginners but still not something you feel like you will grow out of from what I herd from friends. Documentation / community seems good too from what I can tell where I have stumbled on it looking for stuff. Seems to have good hardware compatibility.
provenrad some times if you have new hardwear the support is not too good so coming back in 6 months can make a big difference even on the same distro.
Real men / geeks use Linux from scratch and ask all questions on Usenet.
Linux is like anything else. once you get to a critical mass of knowledge solving problems becomes alot quicker and easier.