Sometimes it can be tricky to find a distro that is easy to set up the wifi connection, Ubuntu seem to be the easiest to set up on most systems, usually finds it automatically.

I like the styles with the task bar at the bottom, similar to XP look...
Lately I have been installing Ubuntu and use synaptic to get the KDE desktop environment and install it. Then at the log on screen click the icon to change to the KDE or other style.

But some other nice ones are KDE, Zorin OS, Mepis, Mint is becoming a #1 favorite on most lists(so many versions to choose from w/mint), LXDE, PCLinuxOS, Lubuntu, Peppermint, SnowLinux...
List of most distros and new ones coming out -
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=52

Once in awhile, I find the web-pages aren't as smoothly displayed as with windows..
but a different distro won't have that problem..it seems to be a distro/system /configuration compatibility thing..