Okay, so for the past couple of years I've off and on had windows/linux dual boots set up. As far as I know, Ubuntu Linux is probably the easiest to use distro out there, and it keeps getting better. I remember the first couple times I tried it having to spend hours figuring out how to set up this or that...but its all good now...Ubuntu Feisty, the latest version, came almost perfect right off the cd. I had to download a few programs for multimedia and such, but thats easy it doesnt take long at all. So if you have some spare time and some extra hard drive space, its definitely worth a look: if nothing else just get the liveCD to see it!

Ubuntu Homepage:
http://www.ubuntu.org

Helpful links:
http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007 ... u-704.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPPrinter