I was able to get it running easily (!) on an old Toshiba laptop (115C, to be precise). It worked well, was stable, and I had no issues during installation. Granted, on that hardware, it was no cakewalk, but it was more tedious than it was difficult.
Same laptop, same scenario, with Slackware... well, it wasn't pretty. Getting networking support running just so I could *download* packages was a nightmare, never mind getting the display to work right.
I tried them both on a desktop machine, as well, and while Slack actually *worked* on that machine, the install was hell compared to Debian's... which surprised me, considering, but there you go. And I could never get sound working, even though it was a standard Creative Labs SB16 (I think it had something to do with a DMA conflict - I've heard there are issues with DMA and IDE hard drives under Linux? - but frankly, if I have to re-compile the kernel to fix a piddling sound bug, it's not worth it).
YMMV, of course, because in both cases I had old hardware, but hey - that's the norm when it comes to Linux-powered devices. :) And this was about 2 years ago... I understand there've been new releases of both since then.
--sofaspud
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