So you want some sticker saying "Slackware (officially supports laptops)", so you can put it on your laptop ? My laptop works fine with Slackware, in fact it works much better than with many other distros, I consider that official enough for me. Besides, does it say anywhere that Slackware officially supports desktops and not laptops ?

No I don't need some stupid sticker--we'll leave that to the Ubuntoids, one of this accused me of trying to start a flame war (looking back, though, it did look like that--I need to tone down my Slack evangelism! :). But there are quite a few things that laptops need that are missing in Slackware, and good, update ACPI support being chief among them. I've got most of the stuff working but there's still a few little nagging things that won't, the worst being my Nvidia IGP not going into power save mode, but that problem is known and acknowledged by NVidia themselves, so I guess I'm screwed there. On the other hand, things like Laptop Mode support are completely missing from Slackware and I'm having to install by hand--there may be slackbuilds for them, but I haven't looked (my bad).

I'm not about to say that I'm abandoning Slackware after 14 years of loyal and loving use (true, I use SlamD64 on my laptop, but that's not exactly "leaving the fold"), but rather that it would be nice to include these things in the normal install or at least in /extra.

Mike