This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. One of the common criticism towards Slackware is that its method of package management is archaic and unintuitive by the standards o » Continue Reading
I, like many chronically online pieces of shit, consume a concerningly large amount of YouTube videos. And as a Linux user, one of the video topics I frequently check out is videos pertaining to Linux. Linux news, gaming, security, etc. But for every good Linux YouTuber, there seem to be plenty of bad ones, people who barely know what they're waffling on about, people who get information wrong (w... » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. Today's entry of "Slackware, Simplified" serves to kill two birds with one stone; initially, I was going to do separate entries about » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. From the initial install, Slackware has a solid handful of graphical environments available to use. They are (in a full install): » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. It's been a little while since the previous entry, but trust me, today's entry is a good one. So, up to this point, you've installed Slackware, config » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. In the last entry, we learned how to install Slackware. Today, I'll be teaching you how to work with two different essential parts of Slackware: packag » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. Slackware is often considered a Linux distro solely for advanced users, and while some aspects of it can be very foreign to someone coming from, say, Linux Mint or U » Continue Reading
PREFACE: Lately, I've noticed a certain phenomenon on the internet, and this phenomenon has led to my groundbreaking scientific hypothesis "The Shitshow of the Week" which is sure to win me a Nobel Peace Prize and a shitload of big booty bitches swarming me as a result my world-changing discovery. THE HYPOTHESIS: The "Shitshow of the Week" hypothesis is as simple as this: sometime every week, it s... » Continue Reading
DISCLAIMER: As I stated previously, I do not consider this a definitive, exhaustive guide on how to do anything I'm doing in this post. If you try this for yourself, don't come crying to me if or when it breaks. PREFACE: I originally made the first SLS post not only so I could have something to do, plus document Softlanding Linux System, but also to entertain the members of » Continue Reading
DISCLAIMER: I do not consider this to be an exhaustive guide on how to install SLS. Take every instruction I give with a grain of salt. If you do attempt to install SLS based on this post, your mileage may vary. Don't come crying to me if or when it fails. PREFACE: If I asked you what the first distros of all time were, you might have to do a quick Google search. Some of the folks who are mo » Continue Reading
So one time when I was in high school, this one dude took a bet. The bet was 5 dollars. Bear with me... For 5 dollars, this motherfucker took a pair of nail clippers to his front teeth. It went about as well as you'd expect. Image unrelated. » Continue Reading