I am a newbie too, but have tried installation with Debian and Redhat before, found it a real pain to find device support. I installed Breezy Badger a few days back, all my basic devices work fine. no probs with Xwindows. typical install asks u just the basic questions and hence a pain free install. except that it filled almost 2GB space for the basic packages, which I dont bother much about.

As a newbie, this is something I expect out of a new OS, and am pretty much satisfied at this stage. Those tiny little issues, ah I can fix 'em