Hey, I been around watching the forums for long but only today I registered nice to be in here.
I wanted to share my thoughts on Slackware 10.2 as new user.
I been around trying linux distros for long I tried: KNOPPIX, Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, FreeBSD (I know it's unix),Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Mepis and Debian.
I went throw all of those but never ran them for more than 3 weeks somewhere things where missing although I think Debian was the best of them, I couldn't stay with them they were too heavy with no need or reminded me windows too much in the run for easy and new home users (what not always make it simple), I went to try linux to stop my war with windows every day to tweak it and make it run better (I hate stuff I can't control).
I stayed away from Slackware because I heard many times "It's too hard" "Not for newbies" and stuff like that, I'm linux n00b but not in comp's and windows I'm sorry I didn't install Slackware before the past week I think I broke Slack many times but never something big, few times broke KDE, some models and settings but after hard thinking and reading I went throw that.
Now after only a week with Slack I know I'm going to keep it still with dual boot with Win Xp but that's cause I'm not the only user of this comp, I still working throw few issues I got but nothing big I even find the fun in it.
Thanks for all the stuff going in here it helped me a lot and sure will keep helping in the future.

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Heh .. you kept away from Slackware but tried FreeBSD ? Weird enough. I can't seem to understand how FreeBSD can be either "too heavy" or "too much like windows". But anyway .. 3 weeks is hardly enough time to experiment with an operating system such as FreeBSD.
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You've switched to Linux simply because you hate windows .. this is something I don't really understand. As much of an FOSS fan as I am .. I've always considered that you need good strong reasons to run unix [unix is "unix-like" btw. .. and Linux IS unix, it's not "UNIX"], and being anti-windows is never one of them [mostly because anti-windows stuff comes from linux zealots .. most of which I'm affraid to say don't know what they are talking about 99% of the time; unlike BSD users who couldn't care less what people and their brothers are running; nor are they trying to convince them to switch to their favourite OS. .. I mean it's the result of Bad Linux advocacy. (see the FAQ, also called raymondism faq].

Now, I love FreeBSD, I like Linux [am running Linux atm]. My opinion is, there's no reason to end your "distro" search here, there's at least one more "hyp" distribution you've forgot about: Gentoo. I myself have seen Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Slackware, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo and many more [some which are almost unknown] before I came to consider my favourite distros Gentoo and Slackware. So, my advice is .. keep looking.

Also, if you are not passionate about unix, free open source software and it's advantages .. I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical regarding your future with Slackware.

Anyway, I wish you good luck!

My bad, I didn't use FreeBSD for that long for the other distro's I did, when I say it looked too much like windows again I wasn't clear in that FreeBSD and Debian aren't windows for sure, I don't hate windows I still using it but I wanted a change, I did fight my way with it more on new install than I did with any distro I tried, Slack is clean and simple in fresh install windows isn't and it's sure not about hate to windows it really does great job making stuff very simple for ppl who new with comp's or want OS that's very simple to run with all they need in.
Maybe some day I'll try Gentoo it's my plan but I got to learn a lot before I'll be able to do that.

At IceChant's request, I have moved this thread to Member Intros.

Thank you XavierP.