Debian installation nightmares

Tired of Fedora and disappointed at the latest Red-hat, I thought I would go for Debian. I had a very older version of it on a previous machine. You have to install componet by componet, there are over 5 ways to install. So you have to use the process of elimination to find the rigth way. I have about 60% installed, its my 5th day. As of now no drivers seam to be working.