Give Mandriva a try! Not many do anymore. It's gotten very desktop friendly yet has not strayed from the Red-Hat server centric old school Linux.
Personally, after 10 years or so, I just find Linux exhausting anymore. I still have to learn stuff and read man pages. And now I work with *nix every day, so double yawn.
Anyway, that's just me. Pick the best tool for the job. There's no one "right" OS.
