After 15 years of bouncing around all the Windows and Linux OS's, and dropping windows like "a hot coal", I found that best of the best is Scientific Linux for a simple solid all around good working...
Over the years I had several old computers that just wouldn't install various new Linux OS's.. I found that DBAN'ing the hard drive on the first pass just to the first 5%, did something good that...
Just finished up installing and tweaking UE 3.4.2 in this Toshiba Satelite 100..
UE started crashing while composing notes, so I ran "boot repair", which seemed to fix it..