Powerful nostalgia vibes. My first Linux distro was Mandrake 7 or 7.1. Can’t quite recall which one it was but I remember waiting hours for it to download after the boxed copy of RedHat I bought at Incredible Universe just would not cleanly install on my 486 at home.

I stuck with that distro till around 2005? I think the last version I had installed was Mandriva 2006.