Bummer about the puter... Stoked for your goulash though!
That stuff happens. I can forgive my darling openSUSE, but I hate windows or Ubuntu for crashing.I think distros hardly matter any more though, as long as it supports the DE you like.
I switched to Arch from Ubuntu after it kept breaking on me. I've never been very lucky with updates and upgrades. Despite its reputation for being unstable I used the same installation for 7 years and it's been rock solid. It has broken from time to time, but it's been reasonably easy to fix. I never had that with Ubuntu - once it broke it was broken. I recently bought a new computer - the disk on the old had severe performance problems - I think it was starting to fail. Setting up a new OS minus all the accumulated years of cruft on new hardware is such a good feeling. EDIT: I really need to proof read my posts more carefully.