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Slackware was my first distribution! One of my sister's friends came over and installed some 7.x release and left me on my own to configure xfree86. Needless

by chrsig 3y ago

Slackware was my first distribution! One of my sister's friends came over and installed some 7.x release and left me on my own to configure xfree86. Needless to say, for my first time using linux, it didn't work out. But a short time later I was dual booting mandrake & slackware 8.1. Ahhh...the sweet nostalgia of gnome 1.4. Youngin's these days don't have any challenge left. Now where's my cloud to yell at? And why are you on my lawn?!

akoster 3y ago
I agree! Although I just had a kernel panic on my first boot after installing Slackware 15.0 on a Ryzen 5700G chip / B550 board. Likely due to LILO + EFI (or defaulting to CSM / legacy BIOS boot?) + an NVMe SSD + MBR partition table. I hope to chroot into it and figure out whats wrong since the installer ISO booted and ran without any hiccups. But I agree that in general, I have only count on one hand the times I couldn't load X11, lost network connectivity, or couldn't boot after an update or installing new hardware. We definitely are in the year of (the relatively compatible) Linux desktop(s) :-P