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)

Thanks for the response so far guys. I'll let >>16 off this time :)

So here's how the situation stands. Ubuntu is not on my system at all at the moment, not only was I having issues with xserver not starting up but the GRUB loader didn't want to play with me either (it didn't recognise my up or down keys at all, meaning that I couldn't choose windows, meaning I could only boot into a broken linux, HIGH FIVE! - and before you say it, the keyboard was working fine). And because I couldn't load up an operationg system that worked, so I couldn't google my way out - which led to me having to reformat the entire disk and install windows again (which wasn't fun).

So do I risk installing the i386 version, maybe encountering the same problem? Or do I just give up and have a fap.

I think the best way out (if that GRUB thing happens again) is to set Windows to be the default OS to load up so that if I can't move about in the menu again, I can at least let it time out and boot up the default OS.

Any idea how I can change the default OS? the other keys worked in the GRUB loader, it just wouldn't let me select OS.

Thanks again (sorry for turning this into a tech support thread).