Linux Distro? (don't troll plz)

Hello world4ch,
I'm new to Linux blah blah, I tried to install Ubuntu without much success (I get a "failed to load X server" error and get dumped back into command line).

Would like suggestions to alternatives to Ubuntu please, meaning, a nice beginner distro which has a good community support.

Danke.

(no "use BSD" or bullshit replies like that, it's not relevant to my interests)

1.) Which display device driver are you using?
2.) Try reconfiguring X (sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg) or re-installing using APT.
3.) Does X11 actually start up? Run "startx" from the prompt, you should get a jaded background with a mouse cursor at least.

Posting the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf would help as well.
There's a good chance the 64-bit ATi drivers are to blame, if nothing works it's advisable to switch to the i386 version instead.