Should I use SLADE to make maps?

I wanted to start level building so I went to download XWE, but Chrome blocked it and labeled it as 'malicious', so I decided to ignore it and pick a different editor.

I'm currently reading the wiki pages and SLADE seems like a good choice but I'm not sure if it's efficient/also 'malicious'.

If anyone here has used SLADE, is it a good choice for map creation? And if so, what version (3.1.0 beta or 3.0.2 stable)?

SLADE is good as a general-purpose WAD editor, but you can't make maps with it because there's no configuration file for it. Use either SRB2 Doom Builder, SRB2 Doom Builder 2 or SRB2 Workbench.

Neither XWE nor SLADE are malicious.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that, as XWE regularly eats up WAD files for lunch. No, better stick with a program that doesn't write to disk every single change you do as soon as you do it.

OK, I just did a check of the actual setup application for Mirror #1 and now I'm going to actually run it...

EDIT: Thank you for your help, SpiritCrusher.

Neo Chaotikal said:

I wouldn't go as far as saying that, as XWE regularly eats up WAD files for lunch.

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People keep saying this, and yet in all my time using XWE, I've had more corrupted wads from DB crashes than from it.

I've yet to have corrupted wads from either XWE or SRB2DB, so...

But yeah, SLADE is better anyway if you don't want stuff being saved automatically.