I would recommend Mandrake to start out with, its a good standard desktop style Linux distro. If you want some networking capabilities, you can go with Redhat, but if you want to more Unix like approach, try Slackware or maybe Debian, but those are far more for advanced users in general. I don't know about the Mac's though, I know they have distro's out there but I have no mac so I have never done that before. But of course, you can always have a dual boot with Windows until your fully comfortable with Linux.
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