Pick and Choose a Desktop

Thanks to VMware, I am having a blast and a half doing a full Linux installation on my laptop while still having a functional Windows system, something I still do need for daily work. Over the past week, I made the leap from just using a pre-configured base Fedora Core 5 appliance to actually installing FC5 using VMware Workstation. It was a bit lengthy since I laying down my virtual systems on a network-attached hard drive versus the overflowing one in my laptop. Expecially long was the initialization of the disk system. I wanted to make my FC5 virtual disk a large one (10 GB) and the initialization took several hours. Luckily, the running of the system does not lag courtesy of our local 100 MBit network. I am quite pleased, using FC5 with a KDE desktop, but I want to explore a bit more into the other flavors of Linux, something which is quite easy to do with VMware workstation. I do not even have to burn CDs since you can do the installation directly from the ISO images. So, today I am off to DistroWatch to pick which one(s) to install next!