Looks like Mandrake was the first Linux distro for a lot of people. Back in the late 90s early 00s I spent all my days in front of a bunch of SGI workstations,

Looks like Mandrake was the first Linux distro for a lot of people. Back in the late 90s early 00s I spent all my days in front of a bunch of SGI workstations, and wanted something at home with a desktop UI that worked but still gave me all the wonderful *nix features I was used to. Mandrake was the first distro that kind of did that. It was relatively easy to install and the windowing environment was mostly familiar. It had a lot of warts but they felt worthwhile at the time. RIP!