[dkersten]

My Linux distro of choice is Arch. I know a lot of people who have switched to Arch and everyone seems to like it a lot.

If you don't want something quite as hands on as Arch, I've also been hearing good things about Mint.

[Wilduck]

Since Arch doesn't come with a window manager out of the box, while you're trying new things, try installing a tiling window manager as well. Awesome[1] and Xmonad[2] are both good choices. If you want to be a power user of your window manager, you'll want to check out a tiling WM at some point.

[1] http://awesome.naquadah.org/

[2] http://xmonad.org/