nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyr8t0wty25yz5vmv2sjue7lujcunyx3g7zkacl4r38099jhwgzd5vf2p7rx (nprofile…p7rx) yes I was similar.
Hard now to guess when my first trials were, though Progeny Linux was one of them.
I then used Mandrake in parallel for a few years, even doing a shared "home" across that and Windows for about a year.