Okay geeks, anyone use this stuff? If you haven't ever, and wanted to try it, I highly suggest Ubuntu Linux. The latest version is 9.10 which I'm downloading now. I've been using Ubuntu since version 4.10, which is around 5 years.
You can try it as a Live CD, running straight from the cd. It won't install, you can just try it out. But it will be a bit slow, so don't judge the actual speed of an actual install based off the live cd.