Nice
Debian is a b. to install, I tried once myself and gave up, couldn't figure it out. But the package management system is sweet, dependency handling and all.
If you want something that's easier to install, you should try Gentoo. The install procedure is longish and in parts complicated but the documentation is comprehensive and *very* high quality. In fact that's why people flock to Gentoo these days. The downside is that it's a source compile distribution, past the install stage you build every package from source everytime, the system works well but it takes time obviously. I started using Gentoo a couple of years ago and I've never looked back.
If you want to try it some day, this will get you started:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml