Linux for lazy b*s

I've seen all the bad ideas microsoft are building in to the core of their new OS and I think I might make the switch to linux sometime before XP becomes obsolete.

Ideally, I'm looking for a user friendly version, where I can download and install programs without having to mess with the internals and copying files around without knowing where the hell they're supposed to go.  Something RPM based would be good, but without the possible hassels that follow RPM based distros' =/

Haha, well ok. I dont really know what I'm rattling on about here.  So, any ideas of a decent distro for someone who doesn't want to get very in-depth with linux?

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Yes, RPMs are crap. Dependency hell is one "feature" that should stay on Windows.

Mandriva and SUSE are two distros designed for Linux newbies. Debian and Ubuntu may also be worth looking at. Gentoo is probably too technical for you.