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?

>>1
your looking for either:
a. http://ubuntulinux.org
b. http://linspire.com/
the first one is free, the second one is like $40.

ubuntu is as easy to install as windows, and its just one cd. hell they'll mail you a free one. and theyve made basically everything as simple as possible for a first timer :) it also has synaptic, which is the best way to install programs ever in my opinion, it just lists everything available by catagory, or you can search for stuff. at least its logical compared to some other package managers. now, to feed some trolls:
>>3
rpm's were a dumb fucking concept, it would be like if all windows programs came as zip files with none of the required DLL's, and i wouldnt really recommend suse, its truly shit now(tried the 9.x versions? 5 programs for the same fucking thing by default)
>>4
o, windows had dependencies. ever try to run a program(after it installs "broken", dpkg style) and have it pop up saying it needs blah.dll to run? theres your dependency, and ive seen it whine about visual basic/visual C++(which half life 2 uses!) bitching that it needs versions x, but you have version y installed. then you install the other version, bam, 2 versions of the same fucking library. and you KNOW where stuff goes, it basically either goes to /usr/bin, /usr/share, or your home folder(which are pretty much the equivalent of /windows, program files, and my documents)
>>5
lol you should have said they tried to fix it that way, what ended up happening is everyone stopped including the dll's for shit and you had to download them all the damn time from some DLLWORLD site