I prefer Linux Freespire. Its a take off of the Ubuntu distro. Its the only operating system I've tried that I only had to install one driver for my hardware. No Micro$oft distro is capable of doing that. But I have 3 operating systems I use on my computer. Win98,WinXP Pro and Freespire. I have a hot swappable removable hardrive so it only takes a minute to have a different OS. And its much better than using a multi-boot program. Linux and Winxp are terrible about messing up the MBR. And once thats done you lose everything.