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)

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I'm using the ATI one (that's after I used sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to change it to that) no luck.

Haven't tried startx yet, i'll give that a go later tonight.

As for using the i386 version, is that okay to use on my AMD64? or am I going to run into problems there?