Get out of this area!!!
I work 28 hours a week as IT tech (which I have no official qualification for) and live in a house on 2 acres of land next to a nice city, while financing my wife who's still studying.
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"Slackware has no dependency management" is a meme as old as Debian, and basically the only thing people know about it.
Fact is, you install additional packages from Slackbuilds, and there's a tool that resolves dependencies for that (slpkg). It's not officially supported but well-maintained and it works. So in practice, it works the same way as Arch's AUR (where absolutely everyone uses yay even though it is also not officially supported or recommended).
So, the fact that the default package manager doesn't resolve dependencies is irrelevant in practice. What is relevant, and an actual valid criticism of Slackware, is that the default installation isn't minimal or tailored to you, and should't be changed unless you absolutely know what you're doing. It gives you a wide variety of software for all kinds of tasks that wasn't chosen by you, but by benevolent dictator Patrick Volkerding. And his choices are very different from what's become the de facto Linux standard today (e.g. Calligra instead of LibreOffice).
My take on it is that Slackware is the perfect OS for maybe 100,000 people on earth, and I happen to be one of them.
That'll make setting up your wifi from the command line all kinds of fun.
Even my SSID with , and : in it stumps the Debian installer.
...is irrelevant due to how Slackware works.
It installs all dependencies for the entire official repo right from the start.
In German, it's sugarwadding.
I use "stable" not in the sense of "doesn't break", but in the sense of "doesn't change its behaviour".
Debian is rock solid, but Slackware is the most stable in the sense that it still looks and works pretty much exactly like it did 10-20 years ago.
Let's get back to talking about Rampart.
Yeah, 200GB is not normal. Sounds more like you at some point clicked "select all" and then "install" in Synaptic. (This kills the Debian)
Yes, you can install different DEs without conflict.
But manually and individually removing all packages you think belong to one DE will lead to breakage. XWayland is like a compatibility layer that lets programs designed for X work in Wayland.
Yes, if you install and start Gnome, you're using Wayland. Programs that can't will use XWayland. You don't have to worry about it.
Then google how to reset the BIOS password on your hardware. Sometimes it's a jumper you can reset, sometimes you have to take out the CMOS battery, sometimes you have to call the manufacturer and provide proof of purchase.
Have you tried it in Chromium?
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