dapper drake
Check it out: Ubuntu Linux is just getting better and better. It’s coming complete with more and more applications that combine to form a complete user desktop, and each release has a more polished user interface than the last. With the addition of Xgl and compiz — a eye-candy rich graphics system that rivals what Mac OS X and Microsoft Vista can offer — Ubuntu Linux has come a long way. If you want to try Ubuntu on your machine without losing everything you own, download and burn a Live CD which you can boot off of just to check Ubuntu out, without formatting your hard drive or modifying your existing OS in any way.
~jeff