I installed Mandrake 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron laptop tonight. Very cool. If you select the graphical LILO, it gives you a really nice menu system instead of the text prompt, and the whole startup has pretty little icons like on a Mac startup screen (only prettier). The KDE desktop has a link to DrakConf to configure all of your hardware and some software (although, I did have to hack up the modules.conf to get sound working properly on this particular laptop). Anti-aliased fonts and icons look great, but they're not on by default, you need to turn them on in the Style dialog. I prefer editing config files by hand so I know what's going on, but Mandrake 8 has enough put into the UI that even my mom could use it. Jay