Linux in a M$ world

[Andy Leach]

Hi All,
        
	I'm starting a new job next week, the management are happy for me to 
take XP off the provided machine and put a Linux desktop on if it'll 
keep me happy and make me more productive :o)

	I've never needed to run linux in a windows environment before but I 
understand that I'll need to set up Samba to let me talk to the servers. 
With my 'less than guru' level of knowledge I wondered what distro(s) 
you'd recommend for this task?

	I'd like it to be KDE based and as quick and trivial to set up as 
possible as the current developer leaves on a Friday and I start the 
following Monday...

Cheers,

Andy