I've tried like hell, I mean I've really tried, been trying to use Ubuntu, but it just keeps failing me. Like copy & paste isn't reliable! Something that should just work, just fails for me all too often.
I never have had a problem copying stuff in Nautilus or text editors in Ubuntu...the biggest problem I have dealt with is Nvidia drivers...but Ubuntu 13.10 runs very smooth on my laptop with nvidia drivers...Ubuntu is coming along pretty nice...