I just convinced a friend of mine to install Mandrake 8.2.Until now he's been using XP and was reasonably satisfied, but I just walked him through the deletion of the NTFS partition on his d: drive and he starts with the install now
Let's hope everything goes smooth during the install, he might very well completely ditch XP in favor of Linux.
I know I will soon, I'm liking Linux better and better every day
