You are going to like it. I found Ubuntu really fun and different, but clunky to get around. It took a while to figure out the wireless, I never got the DVD to play, etc. PCLinuxOS is just about self-setting. It set up the wireless during install which just worked.
It’s funny reading these threads. I have windows machines, and yes, one must run 27 different anti-crapware software packages, run registry cleaners, firewall it, and pray to the God of all things digital that they don’t get something. Linux doesn’t have a registry, and doesn’t get nasties unless you install them giving permission three times. I’ve been running PCLOS since november bare naked, and nothing gets in.
The forum is particularly friendly and helpful:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58
It was an easy install as I accepted the preset defaults as they came up.
I did have the disk space available to keep XP and do a dual boot set-up.
Kinda nice not to have to worry or update all the anti-everything and still be secure as I tended to worry about those things with WinXP. All my financial stuff is done on Linux side now and therefore WinXP usage is down to almost nothing now.