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Hi, my name is Sean. I'm from Portland, Or. I'm 29 years old and have been using Ubuntu/Linux Mint for the last 3 years. Both those distros are fine distros, but after 3 years of using them I wanted to learn more about Linux, so I started looking into distros like Arch Linux, I decided the installation of Arch might be biting off more than I could chew at the moment (plus I only have one working machine right now - my desktop died - so if anything went wrong I wouldn't be able to troubleshoot.) and began looking into Slackware and found Salix in the process through Distro Watch. I have to say, that so far, I've learned more about Linux in the last week or two than I did in 3 years with Ubuntu & Mint. I figured out how to compile programs from source fairly easily, I've only ran into one problem so far. and since I figured how to customize it I'm also loving the XFCE desktop, which I'm surprised - I hated Xubuntu (been using Gnome up until now) ....

Welcome...
I installed my first Slackware in 1995-96.. In fact I believe it was called Slackware 96'..
I have seen in the following in print quite a few times.....in one form or another..
"If you want to learn Red Hat, Debian or SuSe installed them. If you want to learn Linux install Slackware."

Welcome!

Installing Arch was certainly challenging for me, and remains a work in progress; the Arch documentation is very thorough, though. I have it in a partition alongside Salix (dual booting). But it's just for learning - like you I love Salix.

Hi neruson1981,

Welcome to Salix

Hi neruson1981,
have fun with a real Linux distribution now

I am having fun I like computers - never took one class in them other than typing class in high school, but I've always been a fast learner when concerning them... When I was in high school I learned basic HTML just by viewing the source on a website and staring at the code until it made sense

So far I like Salix. I plan on keeping it on my laptop (my laptop has never run so well), but I'm going to build a new desktop this summer and I want to install Arch with a Gnome desktop on it - maybe a dual boot with Salix too..

When I was in high school I learned basic HTML just by viewing the source on a website and staring at the code until it made sense

Yeah I did the same thing in High School, except with Girls.

Ahem.. I guess I better get serious again..

sqlpython wrote:

When I was in high school I learned basic HTML just by viewing the source on a website and staring at the code until it made sense

Yeah I did the same thing in High School, except with Girls.

Now that was really funny!