I'm agree. Linux Mandrake is best distro for a newbie.
You can download it from here (three ISO CDs or one ISO DVD) using BitTorrent.

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What software suites do u use on it? Openoffice, mozilla, etc ?
Are linux game versions hard to find?
There are thousands of good applications for Linux, except games
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I have XP and I'm considering dual booting wid a Linux OS.
You can set up a dual boot very easily during the Linux installation, but remember that Linux can access to NTFS partions only in read-mode so if you need to share files between the two OSs I suggest you to create another FAT32 partition.