Hello all!

After being a Windows user since 3.11 for Workgroups, I am fed up and done with Microsoft.

I am making a serious attempt to transition to Linux. Here is my problem. THe only thing I really know about Linux is that when I was fortunate enough to have a Rio Empeg, it used Linux.

I know the experience level of the members of this group is very high, and so I would like a recommendation (or two or three) of the best (free of course) distros of Linux to install on a backup laptop to get familiar with it before I install it and all my 'real' data to my 'everyday' laptop.

Feel free to answer here or through PM if this needs to be a separate conversation.

PS If anyone has a spare Rio Empeg they want to get rid of....It would be welcome in the humid land of Oklahoma!