yea just about any distro you can make as flashy as you want ubuntu is good so is gentoo and pclinuxos kanotix ect well its which ever distro u want you just need to install beryl and you will be set also its the interface like kde or gnome gnome seems a little bit more organized but kde seems more like windows, i sugest you get both, and also ubuntu and pclinux are both extreamly easy to use (pclinuxos already has beryl installed!!!) good luck