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Nothing wrong with some easy of use. Otherwise people that create scripts to make things easier, would also not qualify to use Slackware. Doing everything with bare standard commands plus parameters is not always handy in day-to-day use. Especially if it's commands you rarely use, because then it becomes time consuming.
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Yes, and I've been using Slackware for years. IMHO there's nothing wrong with options.
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Originally Posted by deNiro
Nothing wrong with some easy of use. Otherwise people that create scripts to make things easier, would also not qualify to use Slackware. Doing everything with bare standard commands plus parameters is not always handy in day-to-day use. Especially if it's commands you rarely use, because then it becomes time consuming.
Some days I don't feel like typing so much. If ease of use is not an option with Slackware then I guess I should never use the command "startx"
From time to time, I install Slackware on friends computers. They have no clue on what's running under the hood but it makes things easier to maintain for me... I could help them install such tool to increase their autonomy.
I'm not a big fan of KDE, I prefer xfce, so I didn't install it, I guess I could.
It's not like "adduser" or "groupadd" are difficult, I'm just lazy sometimes.
Another option is Webmin. It runs in a web browser, is very configurable, and has a nice User/Groups module. It may be over kill, since there are a load of modules for almost every sys config you can think of.
Well, last night I spent a couple hours doing several SlackBuilds and their dependencies, webmin being one of them.
Tonight, I spent a couple hours configuring most of them. While the UI has changed a lot from the version I used in the past, it is what I was looking for. Thank you @camorri for the suggestion.
Now if I can only get my old conky.conf file properly converted to the lua format I'll be happy. And no, convert.lua did not work, many syntax errors...something else to learn
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