i personally havnt taken the plunge into linux, but im still gathering…got some distros actually burned right now
i hear suse is the best in terms of a beginner’s linux, so props to yall 👏
however, from the massive amount of research ive been doing, looks like gentoo APPEARS to be a bit better. the only cons i see are install difficulties. they have a GREAT documentation on their website, and a friendly message board for really good support. check it out: http://www.gentoo.org
another suggestion is knoppix, its a “live cd” distro, meaning it runs directly from a bootable cd, and no changes are done to the hard drive. i personally am gonna just take the plunge into gentoo, because ive been looking at it for quite a while…just got alot of backing up to do haha