Out of curiosity which of the two, Fedora and Ubuntu has had better detection of your hardware?

Kubuntu detected most of my hardware fine... *Except for my webcam and media controls. I guess it's because the drivers Acer has for it isn't supported yet.* Fedora detected just about everything Kubuntu detected except for my wireless card.

:/ On a side note, I really think that posts like this should be in poll format.

The *buntu's - though like fedora, they still don't let you do a few things by default - multimedia stuff that has some patent/legal issues (well possible patent/legal issues).
Always worth checking out new hardware for the presence of linux drivers e.g. my new printer is an HP one, because between HP and Epson, they have some of the better linux support. Though it's fair too say that because of "re-branding" you can sometimes get other stuff to work, they just don't use quite what you'd expect for drivers.

Wireless cards are famously problematic - though if theres no "proper" driver for the device, you can often dig up the info on ndiswrapper and use the windows driver supplied with the device.

Webcams ? dunno, don't use one. And I'm not sure what you mean by "media controls".

Some of the best hardware detection out there is available under knoppix - and while it can be installed to hard drive, I had most success with kanotix (polished version of knoppix that uses mainly proper debian repositories/mirrors)

regards

John

By media controls, I meant buttons on my laptop that were programmed only for DVD / Audio controls. (Play, stop, fast forward, and volume buttons.) They're just dedicated media control buttons.