Absolutely. If you’re looking to just learn about Linux, you can’t go much further than Slackware. It’s as Linux as you can get: you can learn distros (which a

Absolutely. If you’re looking to just learn about Linux, you can’t go much further than Slackware. It’s as Linux as you can get: you can learn distros (which admittedly is easier now that many are built on a few different platforms - GNOME, xfce, systemd, etc.), but Slackware gives you a kernel, core-utils, and a bunch of packages - can’t get much simpler than that. Also once you track -current and get around SlackBuilds you can install almost anything you want, it’s a full-fledged and modern distro. Without dependency management to be sure, but if you’ve got a well-made distro and you compile most of the software you install, who needs it?