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Hi All. I am Dutch from the Netherlands.
I started with Linux back in the 1980's . My first experience was one off the first slackware versions and some other distro,s like debian redhat and suse.
In that times it was hard to compile because hardware wasn,t supported like these days and you had to compile your own kernel . then there was windows 3.1 , 95/98 , 2000 and so on , until microsoft started with all the bloat etc. Tried many distros including the big ones like ubuntu , mint , Fedore etc but somehow my 13 year old laptop didn't feel right until today . I found Salix and it runs like a very well tuned Ferrari . What a joy . A 13 year old Acer laptop with only a pentium dualcore , 8Gb of ram and a samsung evo ssd running as fast as a expensive intel core .
I would like to thank the Salix developers for making this possible .

Dutch .

You will be more pleased when you update the system. This one takes good care of dependencies and whatever you might have. I never had any issue since I've installed it, I cannot kiss the devs' ass more. Literally.
Welcome to the crowd.
Enjoy the trip, mate. Salix is the best Slackware based distribution I've ever seen.
Edit: best Slackware based distribution, humans do what humans used to do, mistakes I a human.

Hi @Dutch, and welcome.

With Salix, you can get decent performance even with an old netbook with 1 Gb of RAM, and even with the default XFCE desktop - but I prefer using OpenBox in very old machines, just to save 100 Kb. I have seen... Crapbuntu and other "big" distros performing way worse, being so slow that makes older computers unusable. That being said, use Salix on modern computers as well. It won't devour resources for nothing, it is rock-sold stable, and does not stand on your way.

I would argue, however, that the Ferrari metaphor is not very optimal. It should be Lamborghini, preferably the Countach, the best car ever made.