/r/ Linux info

I'm looking at getting away from Microsoft OS's, and trying one of the open source OS's.

My question is, "Which one"? I've seen many versions on the shelves, but I don't know which is better for the first time user.
So instead of browsing the magic google, I decided to try here.

Suse isn't bad at all. There's a give-us-your-money version that comes with extra proprietary stuff, or there's the free version which excludes anything that Novell aren't legally allowed to redistribute without a license - for example mp3 decoders. I'm using the free version and mp3 is trivial to get working. You just add the Packman repository and install libxine1.

Ubuntu was pretty sweet last time I used it, and there have been two releases since then so I can only assume it has improved.

I hear a lot about Mepis, but I haven't used it so I can't comment.

There are a number of "which Linux?" threads on /comp/, you might want to browse through them.