looking for a very easy to use linux distro

You will struggle with wireless.. N cards currently do not work well with Linux (Yet)

Although the drivers are in development.

You can get it to work but it will require some compiling from source code and much tinkering as ralink themselves have released drivers (Although they are hard to set up)... You can get source code here: http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0522_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.6.1.0.tar.bz2
Post back if you wish to take this route...

Alternativly you can use ndiswrapper.. read here for help on that: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper
This runs windows drivers under linux using a compatibility layer.

New drivers will be in a future Ubuntu release.
 
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Just a heads up that Linux Mint 5.0 was released over the weekend. It is certainly the most ex-Windows user friendly distro Ive tried. It has all codecs/flash/java you need and has easy ways of installing and uninstalling software. If you are looking to try Linux I would really recommend it.
 
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