I know way more than the average computer user, but I'm still learning a lot....I just started a linux class as part of my schools Networking program and i have never really worked with linux before. I'm rebuilding my old desktop so i can turn that into a linux machine. I just bought the new power supply that was shot and a new 750 GB Hard drive that was missing so i could get started. I'm willing to partition my disk as many times as I can to try out different versions if i have to. What would you guys recommend for me to try? This is going to be a purely linux based machine. We use Ubuntu in class and i believe our book covers Fedora. I will definitely pick one of those to try, but are there other versions i should give a try? What are your favorites? And I'm already looking into using Mint instead of plain Ubuntu. Thanks in advance for your thoughts