Linked by Barry Smith on Wed 26th Nov 2003 18:11 UTC
It seems to me that a lot of attention lately in the commercial Linux development area has concentrated on either large enterprise customers, or wooing the home user who can barely turn a computer on. Even distros claiming to offer the perfect solution for both ends of the spectrum don't quite seem to fit what I am looking for. 
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Your article starts off great. I like your analogies and euphamisms. I give you a +1 for style. For your willingness to go after the i810 video problem I give a +1. For your lack of willingness to mess w/ the webcam I give you a -1. You see how this works. It is all subjective.
Lay out for us the tasks you want to be able to do, programs you have used in the past to accomplish this and list the hardware on each system in a table. Note any of the hardware that has been troublesome in the past. Then outline your points system/ rating criteria. You could then copy this section at the top of each on your distro reviews.
You have a good start on a distro that will do what you want and be maintainable by going w/ one that is Debian based. That's how I recently got into Debian, with Morphix LightGUI 0.4.1. I plugged in my webcam, did a "lsmod" and saw that the cpia module and a few others got installed. I did "apt-get install gqcam" and ran it from the cli and I was able to capture images.
Debian has a couple of gui apt tools, aptitude works from cli w/ ncurses and synaptic is a gui that runs on X. I recently checked out both on my laptop. Sometimes the gui to apt is too much if you know what program you need, just apt-get install pkgname. I have found this upgrade and pkg install process way better than other distros I tried (RedHat, Mandrake, Slack, others). It sound like you know enough to install Debian 3.0, so will you?
All things take a little research to get fixed, even on Winders 2000/XP.