Ubuntu
I've been running Ubuntu since early 2007. Had a few teething problems with sound cards at the start but worked around them by using OSS. Happily the necessary drivers were updated in the latest releases. Below are tricks picked up over the years of using Ubuntu.
Working with protected folders
Ubuntu tries to protect novice users from doing silly things ( I like this after my first outing with SUSE, when I was a complete novice, which I ended up completely corrupting with my fumblings in it's package manager, etc.
If you need to do something with a protected folder but you don't have permission you can revert to terminal and sudo. So to copy a folder to a protected directory you can use something like:
sudo cp -r /path/to/file/to/copy /path/to/destination
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