Me too

Checkout this winning combination
Nvidia graphics card, Asus Mobo, AMD proc and an Atheros c/s wireless card.

I think Ubuntu is quickly becoming the best OS out there. I have been so impressed by it.

I like it, but i'm not all that happy yet.

I've been having a lot of trouble with gnome when i'm loggin' in. A quick calculation tells me, that about 25% of the logins results in a "faliure to load gnome properly" message. Really a drag.

Other than that, i'm ok with it. Wifi works fine again and apt-get is still a dream to work with.

Perhaps you would do well to check out Rich Barna's site. You'll get quality help there. Gnome has been outstanding for me.

I would have to add, i had one time it would not start (black screen) but it mysteriously started again after i messed in recovery mode.
But i think was mistaken in that it did not work, you see, for some reason my screen goes black while loading. (Which is annoying; no feedback.)

Also while installing Ubuntu at my father. (Prospect convert ) The option dual install did not appear. Partitioning manually hit a small snag too, but it seemed that the partition table of this computer was wrong for some reason before i started Ubuntu. :s

I also had difficulties with my older computer, but it seems that it's hardware was just failing. (Only liveCDs dont crash, i used Damn Small Linux for a while there.)

Perhaps you burned your cd/dvd too fast. I burn them no faster than 4x.

Why do you think that could have been the problem? Sounds very unlikely that a miswrite would cause that behavior.(If it was a miswrite on binaries it would likely just crash, no?) When installing with my father, i checked the CD for faults.
Anyway a black screen during startup for 3-5secs is not a problem at all.

Well maybe i should do that. Do you have a link.

Edit: Nevermind, i've got it