I've never used Slackware, but have often heard about it. I have a 32-bit Dell Mini 9 that may be doing some distro-hopping soon.

Also, you mentioned that you had proprietary wireless cards that required a Windows driver with a software that adapted it to be usable in Linux... could you be thinking of ndiswrapper ( https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper )? I remember using it back in the day, but it looks like it only supports drivers up to Windows XP.

Either way, thanks for the interesting episode!