I have been using openSUSE for the last few years, prior to that Fedora - and before that kernel 0.95. Ubuntu and Debian just didn't seem to work right for me.

Try the cool eye-candy stuff like Compiz and Compiz Fusion. Still makes people go "ooohh..ahhhh" when they see my transparent 3D cube with fire effects and such.

I haven't logged into my windows partition in months, and I only need my WindowsXP VM for a few things I can't get to work on Linux. Windows is all but dead here. Now if I could just get my wife to take the plunge.