Since 2005 for me.

About the only serious issue I ever remember having with Slackware was getting WIFI to work on those damned Dell laptops with the crappy Broadcom hardware. I remember a serious of workarounds and driver installations that were required to get it to work. I keep notes, so I have the solution in my notes. I haven't had to deal with this in a long while, though, because I currently don't have any laptop systems.

Since 2005 with Slackware 10.2

2002-2003, If I remember correctly, 8.1 was the first Slackware version for me (I may have tried it earlier as well, as I was testing a lot of distributions in the late 1990's). Slackware ever since (Laptop's, Desktops, only wished I could run my phone on Slackware as well )

I came from Mandrake at the time (hence my nickname), ran Redhat before that (1998-->?)

I've happily used Slackware since 10.0(2004). Very grateful for our outstanding OS.

Started with Linux (Redhat) in 2003 and switched to Slackware 9.1 a few months later, so 2004. Never looked back.

1997 I think. There was a Slackware cd in the back of this book I bought, Linux for Dummies.
Don't remember what version it was. Didn't keep the book either.

I did burn up my monitor trying to get xfree86 running.

Don

I went through that as well. I had an Inspiron 9100 32-bit with Broadcom wireless. I needed NDISWrapper (remember that?) to make it work, and I had to enable 8k stacks for it.

Oh, yeah. 27 years, since Slackware 3.0.

9600 baud terminal link to the ASU Engineering and Sciences machine room where I worked nights. Picture of the 1994 diskettes in box #1 of 7:

http://psnarf.org/pub/Slackware/Slackware-1.2.0_1.jpg

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Sometime in 2002 with Slackware 8.1.

Like the OP, I managed to get Slackware installed at the beginning of 1993. It was on a 386 with a 105 MB hard drive. I had Dos, Windows 3.11 and Slackware installed together on that drive, with a partition left over for the printer queue. It feels a bit crazy that Slackware barely fits into 20 GB these days, which is almost 1000x more space than I needed the first time. Well, it does a lot more than it did back then.

I have been running it ever since.

Edit: Oops! It was the beginning of 1994. I tried to install it in December of 1993, failed, and got back to it after the new year. I don't remember much about the installation, but I do remember how cool it felt being able to build and run my scientific code using g77 on a 386 rather than wait for one of shared workstations to be available.

I had a dial-up connection (with delphi.com) and the connect charges probably would have broken the bank downloading the disk set. I started with the version that was on the CD (2.2.0) that accompanied Linux Unleashed.

Since before Win95 came out. By a few months, at least. I upgraded my '486 to a dual Pentium Pro for the switch to Linux. Slack's been running on at least one of my PCs since that initial install. (Wasn't getting X11 configured at the time a headache/thrill? "Will I or won't I fry my monitor?")

Cheers...

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My system back then had two -- count 'em! -- 200MB Fujitsu SCSI drives---rock solid devices that we were using at work on some MicroVAXen using Dilog Q-Bus controllers. Felt like all the disk space in the world at the time. (Weirdly, pack rat that I am, I still had those Fujitsu drives sitting on a shelf up until a few years ago for some planned use that I've since forgotten about.)

Indeed it does.

Ouch! I lived in fear of doing that. I spent quite a bit of time on Usenet hunting down a proper mode line for my monitor and avoided that.

Working only using the command line while that search was ongoing wasn't awful as I'd been doing that while using Coherent 4 in my pre-Linux days.

Since 1998. I don't distro hop much, although I did use Mandrake some. I learned to compile a modem driver for a winmodem in Mandrake.

Slackware made compiling software easier, with all the tools necessary already installed.