I kind of had the same experience with all the ubuntu flavors, and other distros. Ubuntu kinda does too much. It tries to be a complete desktop replacement and

I kind of had the same experience with all the ubuntu flavors, and other distros. Ubuntu kinda does too much. It tries to be a complete desktop replacement and as such comes with a lot of preconfigured software. If you have a non-standard wifi-chip or audio chip, or whatever component, it could be that any of those parts break, and you'll have a hell of a time finding out where it's coming from. What worked for me was to try arch. With arch you basically start with nothing, and you build it up from there. It'll take a few hours reading the install process on the wiki, but it's otherwise very easy. In the end you'll have a full understanding of what is happening on your machine. When something happens you will know what program is causing it, because you installed and configured it yourself. Or at least it makes me feel like that, because nothing has ever actually broke or not worked on my current arch install that I'm using for over 8 years. My install seems to 'just work' and I can highly recommend it, even though the install process is a bit more involved. The only problem with Arch is that it's not afraid to introduce breaking changes in their packages, so sometimes when updating, there could be some manual intervention involved. Best is to update at least once a week, and check the website once in a while. > Take a look at a default emacs Is that the default terminal editor on Ubuntu? I fully agree those text editors where typing doesn't enter text should never be the default. Something like nano should always be the default imo.