First post my name is snarph and I like to play with every thing any way thanks for any and all information

I am not totally new to linux but may as well be

any way I have a dell lap top a Latitude D620 that I would like to load linux on

suggestions, pros cons would be greatly appreciated

Oh yea I am planning on running only linux on it if I can get it functional

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Hi and welcome to LQ!

You should be able to run any 32 bit distribution on that machine. Since you are new to Linux we need information on what you want to achieve with Linux to give you proper recommendations.
For example, if you just want to have a functioning and easy to use system without making much learning effort Ubuntu, Mint or Mepis would be a good recommendation.
If you want to learn the inner workings of the system it would be better to have a look at Slackware, Arch or Gentoo.

Thanks for the reply well I would like a bit of comfort prior to going all text and command line I am still very use to the windows GUI but that is why I am wanting a linux machine to push my comfort zone a little

can I go with the the one of the three you have listed and still ramp up with the learning curve :inner workings ?

Of course. You can start with the easier distros and if you are more comfortable with Linux may be change to a different distro or learn about the inner workings of those distros. Just keep in mind that the purpose of these distros is to hide those inner workings from the user.
I for example started my Linux journey with Ubuntu, switched after I became comfortable with it (and started to feel limited) to its mother distro Debian, made a short visit to Arch and the landed at Slackware, which is still my preferred distro.
You can also have more than one distro on the computer, so that you have a more user-friendly system for your everyday tasks and a second system that you start if you are in the mood for experimenting with it.

well that is encouraging like every one in the world that thinks even for a second that paying 200.00 every couple of years to be part of a OS that only dose what the designers want it to do when there is alternatives is kind of like shooting your self in the foot to see if you like it

Try some of the live cd's at www.distrowatch.com for starters. They may need up to 1G ram so we may need to know more about your computer. Live cd's are a easy way to see if you might like the distro.

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Distro which you are more familiar to install and configure is a Good Distro .But for Beginner my choice could be Ubuntu ,Second options could be Centos

I wouldn't consider CentOS a good choice both for a beginner and for a laptop.