> Then I bought Mandrake at CompUSA. Same result. I bought Mandrake online I think around early 2000's (for love of god, I can't remember how/which website). E

> Then I bought Mandrake at CompUSA. Same result. I bought Mandrake online I think around early 2000's (for love of god, I can't remember how/which website). Everything worked (for realistic definition of "everything" in those days when it came to Linux). It was the most polished of the few distributions I experienced (until Ubuntu Dapper Drake came along much later and basically blew me away).