My first desktop Linux is Mandrake too. Reason? It had KDE. It looked like Windows. I've recently come back to KDE by way of OpenSuse. Both decisions surprise even myself. I never thought I'd use an rpm based distro again. (I am using Tumbleweed. Rolling updates+snapper snapshots on btrfs is what sold it to me. I would prefer zfs but had no issues with btrfs yet in two years)