I'm stuck using Windows at work. But I do have 2 computers at home running Ubuntu 7.10, but I am thinking about going back to 6.06, it seems to run a bit more stable for me.

7.10 is nice and any variation of it is great. Ubuntu, Kubuntu (a bit more like windows GUI), Edubuntu (education bundle), Xubuntu (runs great on old hardware)

My reccomendation would be to try out a liveCD, but remember it will run slower as it is running from memory and the CD.

Also, dual booting is a nice option. If you do it that way, I would highly suggest using either a seperate hard drive or making a different partition.

--Derek
P.S. I have tried Redhat 8 or 9 years ago, Mandrake/Mandriva, Gentoo, Suse, and some smaller distrobutions. I have DSL installed to a thumb drive that I can boot most computers into which is fun.