Hello, my name is Tim. I'm studying for a sysadmin certification, and so slackware seemed like a good choice to learn the inner workings of a linux system. I'm very impressed with Salix as well. The aesthetics are top notch. I installed the xfce version, but I use herbstluftwm and the command line ...

Herbstluftwm or similar tiling manager as option under ratpoison release, and with keyboard friendly tools (dmenu, rofi,vimperator) to go along with the purpose of the ratpoison window manager.

pre-installed tools that are in line with the 'do one thing well' saying, and an installer for more ...