paulitoIf we're plugging linux distros then I'll just say crunchbang is where it's at for rookies who realize that ubuntu is awful but don't want to make the jump to something more difficult yet.
I've had some trouble installing steam on it though. Something about the .deb being x86 and my computer being x64, which makes sense, but I don't know how to fix it. If Valve would implement 64 bit versions of their things that'd be pretty neato.
I don't know if the version of aptitude crunchbang runs has multilib support, but you download 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system by doing apt-get install package:arch