Quote Originally Posted by Freston View Post
The whole point of Slack is to edit configuration files through the command line. Almost every service in Slack is turned off by default, and there are very few graphical tools to help you.

I always visioned this as being lost in an underground maze of tunnels and caves. Dark and scary, and no idea where to go. But as it turnes out, Slack is very well documented, there are lots of very useful comments. If the command line is a maze of underground tunnels, then it is one where the builder has left comments on every junction. I was amazed and felt at home quite easily.

Still! Everything is turned off at first boot. But turning on the services you want is so easy, it's genius. The same is probably true for every Linux distro, but the lack of graphical tools forces you to switch on everything manually. Which is, and take this from a n00b as myself, easier in most cases. If you know what you want, Slack will do it.




The only downside I see is that Slack almost begs for a full install. There are many packages with weird names you don't need, and there are many packages with weird names you do need, and the list has no end. Sure, many systems have the disk space required, but I don't like it myself.
Very well written