/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.

Gentoo, every Gentoo user is a happy Gentoo user!

http://www.gentoo.org/

Some trolls will come forward and post silly things about ricers, just ignore them. They are just pissed off because they were too stupid to install Gentoo. I mean, seriously, just follow the installation instructions and you cannot fail.