Maybe it's a silly example, but I have found there have been various hardware integration problems with my x61 various ubuntu installs. Every new release brok

Maybe it's a silly example, but I have found there have been various hardware integration problems with my x61 various ubuntu installs. Every new release broke something. The first release I installed allowed me to put my compy to sleep but not wake it up. The most annoying release bug was an issue with my wireless card in which it would only stay connected for a few second. The latest release was actually the best I've experienced so far because the only thing that happened is that flash became fucked up, which is pretty standard for flash. A friend of mine, observing my various struggles with ubuntu (I'm a n00b; he's been running linux since the dark ages, so he was my go-to guy- jedliu on here) was traumatized by my various problems. When he decided to move away from compiling his own updates (Gentoo), he opted for Arch Linux. Instead of having monolithic updates, Arch Linux just updates everything gradually, so you don't have the problems of updates breaking things that worked before as much.