All right I feel like Dvorak here but come on, Lindows has failed. It was touted as putting Linux on the average person's desktop and competing head to head with Microsoft.
I wasn't saying Lindows was bad or even a bad idea. But it got a lot of hype and didn't pan out as a success. Not many people use it. Not yet anyway.
Lindows didn't pan out? I beg to differ. Lindows is now Linspire and is being sold on computers at Wal-Mart, Staples and SEVERAL online retailers.
I'm not a HUGE fan of Linspire (you gotta pay for it, I prefer Ubuntu) BUT, they do a lot of really nice things.
For a beginner, Linspire would be a great Linux distribution. Everything works right out of the box. One of the biggest reasons I like it, you don't have to install codecs to watch a video, it just works!
I prefer Ubuntu because its got a lot of support and its free!

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