I would suggest that you persevere with Ubuntu. It will be very hard for you to
get into, I don't lie to you about that, it was for me, but when you find the
programs from the repositarys in the program and you get more proficient with
it, you'll wonder why you didn't have it long ago.

Yes, certain printers do not work with it but add ons are being done everyday,
so who knows what is round the corner. My camera work immediately, so I don't
think you will have much trouble.