Which OS works best on Acer Aspire One D270?

I have an Acer Aspire One D270 which came with Linpus Linux MeeGo. I have it for two days and couldn't install anything yet, as it does not know about yum. Does not seem to know about xfce either, as i tried to access the settings. I tried almost every advice found on several forums but it won't work, not even with simple things like Skype or Libreoffice, to mention a few.

Another big disappointment is that the power button only works now for turning it on and if you want to turn it of or hibernate, not a chance! I can only turn it off by pressing the button for a long time and forcing the hard drive to stop working.

Although i thought there must be a way i learned how to get along with Linpus and not make major changes in my new Aspire One, i decided to install another OS, but which one?

I use Ubuntu on my desktop for quite a while and I'm very happy with it, but i learned there are some minor compatibility issues with this netbook.

I did some research on how do several OSs (Ubuntu, Mint, Kubuntu, Windows) work on netbooks like mine and Ubuntu seems to be the most appropriate.

Although I also mentioned Windows and it seems to work just fine on Asipre One, i would really want to have a Linux based OS on my netbook.

So, what OS should i choose? What do you think would work best?

I am really looking forward for your answers, as it's quite frustrating to have this new toy and not being able to do almost anything with it.

 

I've been dual booting Fedora and WinXP on a AAO150 and AAO250 since 2008 no problems but ymmv.

ryptyde

 

Windows 7 Ultimate would ideal.

 

I may be lateto the party, but I got my AOA150-1570 early on. It currently multiboots Fedora. Ubuntu, and WInXP, but has also, in the past, seen Mint, PCLinuxOS, Puppy, Crunchbang, and a few others successfully boot and run. I'm partial to the LXDE desktop; by the time I'm done settin it up the way I want it, one distro ends up looking like another.