They each come with nearly the same things and packed nearly the same way. Red Hat just has non-free things included in it.
I don't know how many times I have to say this, but you learn nothing out of installing Ubuntu. Everything is constantly preconfigured for you. The same applies to Mandriva 2007. Fedora and OpenSUSE are excellent starters. I personally started with Slackware and don't see it as complex at all.
Red Hat and Fedora (they have the same company behind them) are beginner-friendly distros. They were designed to be by the big corporations behind them. They're much better starter distros than Ubuntu.
The average computer user can't even install an operating system.
Ubuntu is horrible for beginners, as it leads people to believe that zero-config is good for a system. It's also extremely bloated and it's init system is a complete mess. Ubuntu only has one advantage, and that's apt-get.
*sigh*
Here are how torrents work. Each .torrent file is actually a text file. In the text file is an address. This address is called a tracker. Whenever you load a .torrent file into a bittorrent program, the bittorrent program connects to the tracker to get a list of IPs that are actively connected downloading/uploading. If your torrent has no uploaders or a high downloader to uploader ratio, then it's going to be hard to download anything. Simple as that.
I'd say graphics are part of the gaming experience. With the PS3 and 360, you get the traditional controller. The Wii, while you get an experience, it's a different experience, and some people just don't like that.
It is, but unless you're mass downloading off of several sites, setting up shared internet for a bunch of people, or setting up your PC as a server, you don't need more than regular high-speed cable. Websites will slow you down, that's a guarantee.