Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.
When you decided that you wanted X11, you would need to follow the readme with the understanding that getting it wrong could fry your monitor.
But not for 25 years.
>When you decided that you wanted X11, you would need to follow the readme with the understanding that getting it wrong could fry your monitor.
The usual disclaimer. The defaults worked.
This after fine tuning, as it started with 640x480.
Seeing multiple virtual consoles with login prompts on your first PC was a revelation if you had been amazed by the multi-user systems in school labs and assumed PCs were inherently single user.
Maybe Slackware could be used that way too, but I never tried. By the time we started downloading Slackware floppies, we planned to wipe a system and do an HDD based install to get all those extra packages that would never fit in a single floppy.
Slackware just has very detailed documentation. :)