Still have the SuSE 6.3 box, like it used to be common in those days.
Yast is a great tool, and SusSE is one of the few distros that isn't stuck in the 1970's view of what means OS administration.
Also an ideal candidate for the upcoming age of siloed countries, stuck in commercial wars.
I fucking loved Mandrake. And Red Hat on a PowerMac. It was a challenge but it was very rewarding when it worked. I had the opposite trajectory after that, though. I tried Ubuntu when it was new and shiny but ran into so many issues… Now I have been using OpenSuse continuously for about 6 years without complaint. Even the usual (though much rarer than it used to be) sticking point of Nvidia drivers are trivial to deal with by restoring snapshots.
Mandrake was great, by its usability and being compiled for Pentiums instead of 386 CPUs.
The move to SuSE was when their development quality started to go down, and eventually pivoted into some other distro.