Ubuntu 7.10
Well I have upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 7.04 to Ubuntu 7.10 and it has all worked well. In the past I have had problems with the Battery and my wireless card.
Having started with Red Hat then given up on that After having going throw RPM hell. I move to Debian because Bob told me too. I finally moved to Ubuntu.
I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 4.10 which was a change from Debian. Ubuntu is biased on Debian and uses the same deb package management system but use brown for every thing.
Ubuntu is an distribution that I am happy to give to friends as it work easily and with the latest version (7.10) is very easy for a new person to pick up and start to use.
So go download Ubuntu 7.10 and enjoy