Windows XP: Never Again

I got home last night to find my computer in an endless boot loop. I booted in safe mode, did a virus scan, and found that the boot sector couldn't be run because there was a read error. This after installing the WMF vulnerability patch. Never again. I'm installing Linux next (after re-installing Windows & salvaging what I can. Thank the gods and all the little fishes that I did a backup over the Christmas holidays.)

I've even narrowed it down to four choices after taking this quiz: Ubuntu , Kubuntu, Mandriva, or Mepis. Anybody have specific recommendations?

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