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Date: 4 Jul 2025 23:12:00 GMT
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On 04 Jul 2025 21:12:17 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> I don't know when you installed it for the first time, so I can't speak
> about it. But When I installed it for the first time in 1995, there was
> only slackware available for me and it was way more difficult than
> today.
> Even a distro like archlinux, which is claim to be difficult to install,
> is very easy compared with the issues I had at the time. I had no
> Internet help, only lot of HOWTO and README files.

iirc, the first step with Slackware was downloading and burning a slew of 
diskettes, 40 odd iirc if you wanted a development environment with gcc 
and the buildtools.