Command line can be a pain at times but its good to keep you on your toes.
I went through a few, namely Turbo Linux, Free BSD, Red Hat now Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, and a few others.
My favs are now Ubuntu 7.10 and Mepis. Currenty i am testing the Mepis flavour, and its quite simple to use and also very enjoyable.
Here are some of the screenshots of my simple desktop :)

