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The Stealth Desktop: Sight and Sound With Slackware
sombragris writes "Many people think of Slackware as a distribution oriented to servers and experienced users. However, here's an article that shows how to configure sound and the X Window System in Slack, in a newbie-friendly way and oriented towards desktop usage. The article is a follow-up to Part I of the series, where the author introduced his vision of Slackware as a desktop. Enjoy!"
Nice troll.
Getting sound to work amounts to uncommenting the correct chipset in rc.modules. Getting X to work, if it doesn't by default, amounts to running xf86config and picking the correct options (of which there are few) out of menus.
It doesn't get any easier or friendlier, but it can treat you like a retard with all sorts of fancy auto-config wizards that may or may not work. And when things get more complicated, you'll be up a creek. Kudzu refusing to see that second ethernet card? Oops. On slackware, you'd already have learned how to do it manually with modprobe and ifconfig, and you'd have had no trouble adding those few lines to rc.inet1.