I got a laptop. I've got Slackware. 'Nuff said.

Definitely!
I started with RH/FC3 and they frustrated me a bit. I had some time free so I took the plunge into Slackware and now I cannot honestly see me ever using another distro.
I will not recommend it to Linux newbies who just want to get a feel for using a non MS system, but for people who want to learn and be able to do interesting things quickly and without fuss it is great imho

Was the misquote on purpose?
Keep it simple, stupid.

I agree in that you should give it a try. I too switched from FC3 due to it slowing my learning down. I am currently running slackware on a dell inspiron 2650 and it is great. The only problem I have at this point is upgrading my kernel. However I would have never even thought about trying to do a kernel upgrade on anyother system.

Oh one last thing. For some strange reason I found it easier to install slackware than anyother distro.

I'd echo what many here have said.
Since getting into Linux a year ago I've been a distro tart and tried something new every few weeks.
That probably won't stop (hey, I'm just a curious type!) but now I've tried Slackware - and I'm only a three-day newbie - I know for sure I won't be removing it from my machine to try something else.
I'll be making space on my other box for the others because Slackware is here to stay on this PC.
I've learnt more in three days with Slackware than I did in the previous year with the others - including Ubuntu.
Give it a try - you'll enjoy it if you're the curious type too.

I thought the same, go and ask those double-click distro lovers and you shall get a lot of that Slackware distro is a pain in the ... though they have used it or not.

I passed through Mandrake 8.2, Caldera linux, SCO linux Server 9 (just before that legal trouble they got in), then Slackware 9.0. I tried later just out of curiosity Slax (which I keep at hand), Knoppix 4.0.2 (the current one I believe) and I'd like to try Gentoo just to see if is faster than Slackware; but you all slackers know why and where my heart is

I have been using Linux for all of about a week. I decided to use Slackware because I heard it was the best. Regardless of the complexity I wanted to start with the best. In a weeks time I have successfully setup a Squid Proxy Server, VNC Server, SSh, FTP, Apache, and upgraded to 2.6.15 Kernel and recompilled quite a few times now. I am able to boot to my older Kernel as well. I cant comment on any other distros but I cant imagine things getting any better than this. Just my 2 cents.

I love Slackware, I run various other distributions and OS's but simply Slackware is the best way to go to learn Linux.

For the last 2 weeks I have become very frustrated with Slackware 10.1. That's about as long as I've had it installed. I have been majorly spoiled by all the other distros like Mandriva, Fedora, and CentOS. All their features that let me do burning and multimedia already bundled made it such an easy experience. However the learning curve was lower. The moment I installed slackware all heck broke loose and I had to learn the true inner working of linux. Whew, The drama never stops but the deeper I get into it; the more I slowly understand what is going on behind the scenes. If you want to learn; this is the distro for you! Happy New Year!!

I have and still do run other distros, but the fact remains that on most other flavors of Linux I just keep hearing that voice, "Please ignore the man behind the curtain." If you want to work behind the curtain and see what is going on, then Slackware is your best path to that point.

I used to have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 with XGA resolution working perfecty with slackware 10.x, so laptops are not a problem and YES everything you've read here is true, I have been using slackware since 1998.

Hi,
I think that it will be a very good shot.

started with slack eons ago ..tried other distros ..couldnt wait to get back to slacking it. hehe only problem i have is its so dam stable that i boot it and forget its there. Hella good servers and firewall IF you wnat to spend the time tweaking it. slackware = linux no other like it as far as i am concerned.

If you would have asked my yesterday, I would have said "No!". Now today is another story, after weeding through threads, posting a couple of my own, then fixing the problem without any intervention, I have come to the conclusion that Slackware takes a little common sense, and some help from others, and never giving up. I may have deleted my Linux partition 5 times in the last two days, but I kept trying. Slackware is great, but not very user friendly. I haven't tried any other Distros, so my opinion is biased.

hi...

about five years back I did try something called Corel Linux.. but only a couple of month and went back to microsoft because of simplicity... with corel there nothing much to learn because its was not set up by me... but after encounter with slax I wanna give it a try... it did gives me a pain in the **s... but I'm in a mood of learning.. so every single problem I'v encountered did taught me something.. kinda new discovery...