Currently I have two machines with Linux. One is my main desktop, where I run Debian Bookworm with Gnome. Second is my new Thinkpad laptop, where I installed Slackware 15 with KDE.

This post is only Slackware. As you may know it is my first Linux distributive ever. I did not use it for a while. So I decided to make it my main OS on the laptop.

Installation is pretty trivial and it did not take a long time to do. I did EFI setup with ELILO. It is easy to replace ELILO with grub, but if it works - leave like this.

• add new user
• setup sudo
• slackpkg upgrade (! never upgrade your working kernel)
• sbopkg
• KDE
• cron to fcron
• ufw
• keepassxc

Blacklist the kernel packages before using slackpkg!!! It is possible to fix not working kernel, but do you really want it? slackpkg - kernel

I chose KDE for curiosity (never used it before), second option was XFCE.

I replaced cron with fcron. I did it, because I need to run fstrim periodically on my SSD. Cron runs a task only when machine is active. To solve this issue I needed another app. Fcron is the best replacement. Setup instructions are very clear and they are written on slackbuilds.org.

I installed ufw - it is super simple firewall. Again setup instruction is here slackbuilds.org

Keepassxc - password manager. Dependencies: libminizip, Botan.

Basically that was my basic setup.

Nota bene: best rats ever on Rat Factor!

Ref:

Rat Factor. (2023, June 25). New computer setup with Slackware. Rat Factor.