Indeed. Me not being skilled at all in Linux. I feel it's necessary to gain that natural feel of it before using an emulated one. Using emulators are never the same as the original thing and they always have faults/ hinderances that just wont exist on originals otherwise. I'm gonna go with the slackware for startes.. and then move on to an emulator later maybe just for test purposes to look back on what this post was really about and possibly laugh at it.I'm sure the road to hacking is going to be a long and tedious one, but I'm not in it for the glory or glamour, if any that comes with being a true hacker. I'm in it for the knowledge I would gain for myself, and principals that I would get out of it, not just to look cool with my peers.