Installed Mandrake 10.0 today. Compared to Debian, Mandrake is incredibly easy to install. The whole process was completed well within an hour. One minor hiccup was that my mouse didn't work. Inspecting XF86Config-4 revealed that the mouse was incorrectly configured as '/dev/mouse', which was non-existent. Once I set this right, things were fine.

My Windows box has once again been relegated to the role of a proxy server.