Part of the issue is that I use a card with a Techwell 6805 chipset so I have to tinker with that for a while. Other than that, I don't think I have any complex configs. Most are the problems are scripts or php or some other oddball permission thing which just irritates you.
Build guides out there ( thank you kindly to those who make them) aren't always complete. Following them command by command will usually get you 80% there, but usually a command won't work or something won't install correctly, and it will take hours of digging through forums to find a fix.
It would be greet if there was a highly compatible OS that just worked the first time without requiring days of troubleshooting little issues. Maybe Ubuntu is it, and I just need to get over it. If so, that is a perfectly acceptable solution. ZM is an incredible tool, and it is worth spending days making it work. It would just be awesome if there was a better OS out there that in just don't know about.
This is one of the reasons why I choose Mac's over PC's, but that is an entirely different story
