Over the years, I have wanted to try Linux, and ended up stopping
First time I tried Linux, I could find no drivers for my DSL modem, and no internet meant no OS
Second time, I played around just fine, but I lose the GUI once, and could never wander through the help to get it back (I found out about 'startx' later)
Third time, I had network drivers (even managed to get WiFi set up on my laptop), I could get back into X if I ever got stuck out to a command prompt, but when I started messing around with video drivers, my xorg.conf got messed up, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it to work again.
Maybe Fourth time will be a charm