[ale] Is this really Ubuntu?

[Alexander Barton]

About every three years I replace my home desktop with the latest and 
greatest.  I've heard wonderful tings about Ubuntu.  This time around I 
though I'd give it a try.  So I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop.  But...

This has got to be alpha software.  I managed to crash the installer a 
handful of times just partitioning the drives with the expert mode 
partitioner.  Hint: don't set a partition type to "dont_use". The 
drop-down box for mount points was empty half the time.  Even the dialog 
buttons were flaky -- they ignored clicks unless one first moused out 
of, then back into the button.  I could go on and on.

Surely I must have downloaded the beta version or something like that. 
Perhaps this is a Microsoft dirty trick?

So, can anyone recommend another distribution?

Thanks,
Alexander