Linux Mint, probably - it's got Ubuntu's hardware support and the out-of-the box install has Flash, mp3 codecs, proprietary video drivers, and all the other "no

Linux Mint, probably - it's got Ubuntu's hardware support and the out-of-the box install has Flash, mp3 codecs, proprietary video drivers, and all the other "non-free" software you generally expect on a consumer desktop. If you're running in a VM, one of the lighter Ubuntu variants might be a good choice as well - check out Lubuntu or Xubuntu. That said, the Linux distro you choose doesn't matter a whole lot, they all tend to be pretty equivalent (well, I'd avoid Gentoo and Arch unless you want to learn a lot more than you'd planned on about building packages from source).