Get Slack!

It taught me about linux and has been in use in my household for nearly 15 years.

To be honest I haven't learned much while using Slackware. Maybe it was different 15 years ago, but these days it's easy to install, doesn't require much configuration, and there are few bugs. In contrast, I ran Arch for a while, and learned a ton.

> ...but these days it's easy to install, doesn't require much configuration, and there are few bugs.

Well, there have never been very many bugs. But yeah, the configuration requirements are way down from what they were 15 years ago. Video usually just works, and I installed 13.1 on a new machine here, and sound worked out of the box, without running alsamixer. I don't think that's ever happened before.

"Video usually just works," and that's all that can be said for using VESA as the default. Then again, if the video rendering requirements aren't high, it'll suffice.

It certainly was different 15 yrs ago but yes even Slackware has succumbed to progress and is a lot easier to setup although this is a good thing it does lower the learning curve significantly making it less useful as a linux learning experience. Im not sure how you would go about getting a similar experience nowadays.

> Im not sure how you would go about getting a similar experience nowadays.

Linux from Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/