Speaking of that. I installed Mandrake 10.1 Official this past weekend, and it seems to be the best Linux Desktop OS I've seen thus far. It's very fast, and seems to be rock solid. It was very nice to my hardware too!
Before with Linux I would put it on a small partition and just use it as a hobby of sorts. After giving the new Mandrake a try I'm VERY close to making it my primary OS and dropping Windows all together. It's that good!