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?

>>3
Windows never had the dependency "feature", nor three gazillion versions of glibc, nor several versions of libraries for several programs, nor a complete ugly shitty mess of application files distributed over a hundred directories, among other things. That was invented on *nix.

>>1
You WANT to know where stuff goes. Like cock goes in here, only for apps. But it's really complicated in Linux.