I’ve been using Slackware since 1994, saw redhat and Debian being born.

“Bug”

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

Telegram groups is the place to go for stl files

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.