Look, I have read through much of these comments and I have to agree with the people saying it is a preference. I do NOT like Ubuntu, but I love MintOS which is a spin off of Ubuntu. It is just friendlier, and works great for my entire "Winblows" type family. Took a weekend to change everyone over, took a couple days for everyone to know where "mail" and "internet" are... but from there... smooth sailing. Good thing about an Ubuntu base at this time is that "Steam" the gaming platform, is officially supported there now if you are into that.
My recommendation for Noobs, or even moderate users is to TRY MintOS... if you want something more stable than an Ubuntu base, and do not need the thrill of having the new features built into KDE and such... go with something like CentOS. CentOS is a RedHat based Distro, that is very stable, and supported by a huge community. I use it for our servers at work at around 250+ servers... and never have issues (of course I am not using X, but I have used CentOS X environment (for you noobs, that is the GUI interface) and it is not bad.
Point is there are hundreds of distros you could try, many of those having live CDs you can test it with. Stay with KDE if coming directly from Windows... it will be more familiar to you. As to you people bashing (not to be confused with #) the other distros... everyone has their own preference and use of the system, bashing just shows ignorance.
