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?

>>5
99.9% of DLLs are always backwards compatible, and you don't want or need need to know their version to load them. Ever had a look at /usr/lib? I have several versions of almost any important library, what the fuck is that shit? Who's the moron looking for specific library versions?

>>6
You only need to keep the latest version of them, and it's the software vendor's failure that it didn't come with them. You don't need to "install" them, just place them in the path. EXE directory if you want to keep them private.

And no, applications go in a hundred places at the same time, then they'll bite because some will try to link to libraries in /usr/lib which now exist in /usr/local/lib and so on. The FHS is a piece of shit. You can't keep an application with its libraries, docs (manpages), support files, etc. in a single directory and be able to launch it from anywhere (no Windows AppPaths equivalent). It's like Windows' %WINDIR%\System32 box of shit, only you have a dozen of them, and applications insist on throwing shit everywhere.