Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "What Are The Hardest Linux Distros? (It's Not The Ones You Think!)" video.

  1. I've been using Slackware for over 20 years now and the whole time I've been using it I've heard people complain that it was hard. If you follow the guide it's really easy, and the only time I ever had problems installing it on a computer was when I made the move to a 64-bit computer with a UEFI bios. That took me a few hours to resolve, but honestly it wasn't all that difficult, I just had to finagle the installer a bit with regards to installing ELILO and faking it out, then installing Grub in the background instead. Before that point the guide was 100% spot-on.
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  2. As a longtime Slackware user I've never understood the complaints. As long as you install every package that comes with the installer it'll work flawlessly for most things you want to install that have a configure script and even alternative build methods will often work on the first try. First time I had any issues with installing a given piece of software was this past year when I decided I wanted to finally try out FlatPak. I couldn't get one of the dependencies to build and just left it, but I'm fine with that because I prefer AppImages anyway. Literally everything else I've wanted to use I have been able to either find a binary for or build it myself from source.
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