You really should take a look at PCLinuxOS 2007. Very slick interface, and a little more tweakable for the enthusiast, and just as easy to use for the beginner over any of the Ubuntu distros. I have pretty much abandoned my two previous favorite distros, which was Knoppix and Sabayon for the perfect blend of ease of installation/maintenance and tweakability that I have found PCLOS to be.
As for the various DRM schemes floating around, Linux works pretty well for circumventing the maddening realization that you just paid for a song, and are now locked out of using it on all but just a few of your devices.
And in the realm of DRM, those that hate MS (and others)for their ridiculously overbearing schemes, should really, really hate the crew from Cupertino. iTunes is downright draconian in its DRM “solutions”.
I’ll take a look at PCLinux2007. Sounds great. Is there any available utility for transferring one’s software, files and settings to a new Linux setup from an old one? I’d hate to have to reconfigure everything again...