Houndog try Linux Mint 9....it's come along way. installed in a few minutes and found all my drivers automatically....even the wireless card that winblowz never finds.

 Comes with Firefox, thunderbird, open office, dvd editing and authoring, tv tuner all kinds of free goodies. and a shit load of easily installed games and apps.....I run it on my garage box and dload all the time from IPtorrents with no problems yet.

check it out here....