I was probably being a bit snarky. I have run into cases where getting a drive to show up in the GUI (so, mounting as a user) needed something via dbus.
Ah. Well, I sympathize. When I first started using Linux, one thing I liked about it was the simplicity. Seems that simplicity has been getting eroded slowly but surely since I first started with it, but it has accelerated quite a bit in recent years.
Slackware feels like one of the last holdouts, along with the likes of CRUX and Gentoo, but I fear that soon I will be forced to switch to some BSD -- which I wouldn't mind if my laptop hardware were better supported (I've been running various BSDs on servers for years, but Linux just seems to work better on my laptop; that said, I downloaded the 11.0-RELEASE ISOs a few days ago and I'll give it a shot on the lappy).
