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don't go to xandros. give pclinuxos a try . ver93 was VERY stable and "just works." they are in beta for pclinuxos2007 aka 94 right now and will be done within a few weeks. the beta is very stable on a PC but has some known wireless problems with laptops.

give pclinuxos a try

Why not Linspire (yeah, not inspired but installs/works easy)? Or Ubuntu/Kubuntu (which means "it takes a village to destroy a pumpkin" or some such rot in some African language)?

One of the most interesting and exciting things on the horizon is the KDE 4 release. Using the same x86 binaries, you can run the KDE programs on Linux, Mac, Windows. And they have a very nice educational suite along with KOffice. I can't wait to see KDE 4 so I can run the K apps in any environment.

I see KDE 4 as having the potential to finally make Linux ready for the desktop (for the masses). Once you make it all about using familiar apps that actually run on all the platforms (like Java was supposed to do easily), you overcome the real hurdle. Windows is so powerful in the market because so much software is Windows-only. And penetrating the schools with good quality free software is a good start to building mindshare.

I'm really lusting to run Konqueror on my Mac. Great machine and a decent BSD distro but that Finder is a horrible file manager.