Fifteen-year-old me bought this circa 2001! There was a boxed product called &quot;Linux for Windows&quot; or something like that. It simply resized the Windows partition, installed Mandrake, and installed Grub or LILO (can&#x27;t remember). I installed it on an old Dell Pentium 2 machine I had because I was scared that it would mess up the Windows ME partition on my Compaq P3 800.<p>It wasn&#x27;t the first time I&#x27;d used Linux -- that was Trustix over ssh -- but it was the first graphical distribution I&#x27;d tried. Earlier that summer, I&#x27;d (painstakingly over a 33 kbps connnection) downloaded Phatlinux, an early live CD distro. I couldn&#x27;t run it on my Compaq for some reason, but I did get it to work on my aunt&#x27;s computer. Phatlinux gave me a reason to investigate more and Mandrake let me do it. I think I used Mandrake on that machine until I discovered Red Hat in college (ca. 2003) and I switched to Ubuntu shortly after its first release in 2004.