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I wouldn't jump into Slackware until you're more familiar with GNU/Linux.
I wish people would stop giving out advice like that. If you're of average intelligence, want to learn, can read and follow instructions, and can think for yourself occasionally - then Slackware is not all that difficult.
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Originally Posted by brianL
I wish people would stop giving out advice like that. If you're of average intelligence, want to learn, can read and follow instructions, and can think for yourself occasionally - then Slackware is not all that difficult.
While I would,kt call Slackware difficult to install it does pose problems like manual partitioning (which the advice and instructions seen always seem to complicate) and setting the locale in both the terminal and the DE which other distributions deal with for you. Those being just the two things that readily spring to mind as not being simply following instructions but needing background knowledge.
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