Slackware has been around long before those distros appeared

Yes, that’s true and a bad or undersized power supply also but in my experience it is much more likely to have a bad disk than to have something else fail

I would check the kernel messages (sudo dmesg) and check for errors on the ata bus. If there are it’s most likely the disk that is failling

I was very much eager to buy one until I saw its price tag

I’ll ask him. However the account didn’t show up as linked to other devices

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I’ve been running slackware as my main os since 94. I was never able to get really used to any other Linux distro and I saw them all. I run it in my home pc, in my work servers, my work notebook. Best distro ever.