Thank you drb for your very informative inputs.

Basically I have been getting a lot of positive feedbacks regarding Ubuntu so I decided to go for it, though I can't say that I have completely made up my mind. So all these inputs really helps me a lot.

I remember once I have installed Ubuntu ver 6.06 in an old PC, but it really developed issues while I tried to install the nVidia display drivers. There was no proper display afterwards. As NTFS Read-Write support is very important for me, I shall surely check the distro you pointed out. Could you please let me know the website for it?

BTW, what exactly is a Linux Box? Is it a PC only having Linux as its OS or it is something like a Virtual Machine?

Thank you again.