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Great video. N even though its a old video and you probably figured out the solution with alacritty. But id use a separate script so alacritty opens in a full screen window. Or its your window manager
I am so impressed and happy to follow this presentation ! I am one of those most unexperienced users who never saw or learned anything else except using Windows XP and 10, but I started to be attracted by installing Slackware, and my first lessons were performed inside a VMWare Machine, where I could do any mistakes because I could always revert to previous snapshot. Now my next lesson would be a physical installation and your tutorial match exactly my needs for dual boot and also on a UEFI system. This is such a complete presentation that actually I can follow every single command from the youtube screen into the installation screen, without being worry. It took many hours to discover why the Grub was not "seeing" my windows disk system, because it was an a CPU-NMVe PCIe 4 but your tutorial solved that. So now I'll make the installation on another drive, using your grub.conf command and it should be able to offer the choice of selecting one or another. However, I would humbly request, if requests might be allowed, if you have, or might create, a tutorial on how to install VMWare Workstation 16.1 on Slackware 15.0 given the fact they both must deal with an UEFI system. There are many unsolved problems and I could not find anywhere a tutorial for the unexperienced users on how to make this installation. I made some trials and weird phenomena happened, such as it goes installing half way, then the menu continues with uninstalling and you cannot exit that until uninstall is completed ... in other situations, all sorts of errors appeared, but the vice-versa (installing Slackwaer as a guest in VMWare 16.1 on Windows 10 host) worked amazingly good, at least the 15.0 version (without updating the newest kernel which is not supported - not even in VMWare 17.6). Please let me know if you may help in this regard - Installing VMWare 16 (or 17) in Slackware 15 as host. I appreciate any help you may give. Your explanations are amazingly clear for me. Thank you very much.
Hi, I just tried to install Slackware few minutes ago, but I cannot install Grub with your instructions, the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub cannot execute. It said: "is dev mount ?" and said error grub not installed.
Last time I installed Slackware, 3.4 to be exact, it aged me. Spent a lot of time chasing dependencies and libraries. Slackware 15 does look pretty tempting to try it again.
I wish you your presentation skipped most of overlay and dove directly into the core findings far quicker. After 10 minutes of friendly banter and unimportant context, I left not knowing, will this guy end in meaningful territory?
I know this is an old video. But the reason i looked into using salix os was because i had a retro pc and wanted to see if i could use a newer lightweight linux distro.
I tried it and idk why it drains my laptop's battery wayyy faster than it does in windows. before installing it i get 5hrs of battery on just windows 10. after installing q4os, my battery life on both windows and q4 drops to 1.5 hrs... and i am unable to fix it. after that i uninstalled q4os and things went back to normal. can anyone help me with this? i actually liked q4 but i am unable to use it as i prioritise my battery life more than the OS.
Does this still work in 2024? I'm just looking for an alternative to Windows 11 and I am very wary of switching over to Linux because of all the issues I've had with it over the last couple of years. But if running Windows software and games in wine is now working as it should I might give it a try
Done basic arch installs the arch way years back. When i definatly switched to linux from windows a few weeks back i just installed Endeavour, slapped pamac onit and am sailing off basicly. Not sure wy they are opposed to giving the option to install pamac but i guess they want to keep it as basic as possible. Reason i didnt go for Manjaro was i read about some drama there and the fact that its not 100% vanilla arch. Thats ofcouse an ingredient for breaking it easily when using AUR. Not pretending to be a Linux nerd at all but it does help if you know your way around.
Rest In Power Steve! This video is probably the most linked Slackware install video when referring to new-ish users! I've got it backed-up if it ever loses its place.
Do people still care about this? Back in the day Slackware was the most stable distro so people were inclined to put up with difficult instalation and lack of out of the box hardware compatibility, but these days is not that uncommon. Yes compile stuff is interesting, but at some point you need to get the job done, not waste time, that’s why we use office or libre instead LaTeX. 2nd if you really are in to compiling everything, why not just start with kernel, compile it for your specific hardware and add just what you need?
I set it once and forget it, then go do what I need to do. Slackware is modern and simple, and it works for us. But I'm happy you are happy using other OS's. I hear Windows 11 and Mac OS are great not having to do any interactions for administrating.
@@SajjadRizvi77 no, win 11 is garbage, and mac OS is outdated, limiting and cringe. I use Ubuntu for work, and after upgrading my gaming pc, I will also use it for my gaming Pc. I picked Ubuntu not because "it is the best" or some BS, but because I need 3 things: 1 to have most if not all drivers I need out of the box, 2 to have a large community so you can find answers to your problem, 3 commonality, so once I picked a distro I use it for all pc and servers, so I don't waste time and energy learning particularities for 3 distros. For me Slackware failed at first requirement. I was asked to manually download and compile drivers, and never touch it in 20 years. I used SuSe then, after that Mandriva, and finally Ubuntu since Ubuntu 12.
