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It's easier to install and administer than Arch, and won't break on updates.
But yeah, the current state of the documentation is discouraging.
I'm more worried about package management I guess. Though I suppose now with flatpak that may be less of an issue. Still I use some weird shit, some of it is only packaged as a .deb or .rpm on their site, like the Brother printer drivers.
And yeah the documentation lol. I rely heavily on that or places like lemmy for linux help, which is why to start I picked a really popular distro with good documentation (fedora). It's definitely something I'll try one day though!
You can have a look at slackbuilds.org to see if what you need is available. It's Slackware's AUR equivalent.
You can install packages from there using
sbopkg, which does handle dependencies.It does have the Brother drivers: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/brlaser/
Up-to-date documentation comes in the form of easy to understand text files written by Pat himself, that are installed with the distro. For questions, linuxquestions.org is the place to go. The main devs of the distro read and post there regularly.
That's also what I love about Slackware. I wrote one of the main devs an e-mail and got a helpful, friendly reply half an hour later. That's what Linux used to be like.
Thanks! This inspires confidence! Seems like it won't be so bad!