I just wanted to say that after thinking about it for awhile, I finally took the plunge and became a Slacker tonight I read about the install process and it looked a little confusing, but when I actually did it, the install went flawlessly, not the nightmare I thought it would be.

I've been trying to learn linux for quite awhile, starting with Mandrake 8.1, then Redhat, then Suse, back to Mandrake, when I realized that I wasn't "learning" linux, I was simply using it. I already see how using Slackware will teach me the things that I have been wanting to learn about, and I can see a lot of reading in my future LOL!

I already have questions, but I'm more of a searcher than a poster, and I am sure my questions have been asked numerous times, so if and when I do post, it means I had no luck finding the answer, or simply not looking in the right place.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that anyone thinking about trying it, but is a little concerned, don't be worried, just be a little prepared and you'll do fine

Welcome to the Slack community. Its nice to see how easy people find the distro AFTER installing it
This forum is full of Q&A so be pleased to read it (i've done it some months now and i'm very happy with it )

Bro, you will not regret your decision to go Slack. Trust me - Slack Rocks. -- J.W.

i found the same thing using SuSE...it did most everything for me...very user friendly. once i made the jump into slack, i realized how much more control i had and how much i could learn...i learned more in a week with slack than i did in months with suse...stuff i can use on any distro now...

congrats on your slack

Hey welcome

That was the same for me too..
A completely different approach

Hopefully you will run into multiple problems(you did say you wanted to learn right )!

Happy slacking mate.

Welcome

Momma always told me I was a slacker. Who am I to argue with Momma.

Welcome aboard

Good work Bluenoser. I've been using Slack for about 2 weeks now, and it's taught me more than I had learned in the last two years using Mandrake and SuSE. One of these days I'm going to figure out dependencies and pick the packages myself. You can't beat the full install for a first-timer, though.

Yeah Bluenoser...after my installation of slackware ( a few days ago )...I felt the same exact way. Way easier than I thought! I honestly was rather scared of slackware, before I even had attempted to install it...because of all of this "slackware is hard" stuff that's on the net. Once I got my cd's...I popped the first disk in...installed it flawlessly. Configured X...configured alsa...and was on the net wthin minutes. No problems in between.

Now I've even learned how to compile a kernel...(and did it correctly, after a few tries) .

I know you'll enjoy slackware..I already am

Slackware is definitely a great distro to use for learning. It's also quite fun. I plan on sticking with it.

If you're going to try instlaling stuff from source. Slack is definitely the most newb-friendly. Since most dependant libraries are installed by default with a full install, source compiling is a breeze. There's very little that you're lacking. Somtimes you have to go get SDL libraries for some things, but other than that -- Slack has it all!

Plus, it's a hell of a lot easier to install something and debug why it doesn't run -- than to chase down chain-link dependencies... If you know what I mean (RPM hell)

--Shade

Well, with other distros, you pay for the overhead of auto-everything.. Slack is automated in the very basic things... Like basic hardware detection.. But all that overhead is at boot. With other distros, the overhead is felt with every application.

Get Slack running well, and there's nothing faster than it than a completely source-compiled system.

But who wants to take the time for the minute speed improvement of that?

-Shade