What does Sup Forums think about Slackware?
Is the oldest Linux distro.
You guys respect your elders, right?
What does Sup Forums think about Slackware?
Luke Myers
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Aaron Stewart
>no package manager
It's trash
John Barnes
David Sullivan
its amazing.
John Allen
pkg(8) you fucking baboon.
What Slackware doesn't have is automatic dependency resolution, why am I even replying to an stupid namefag?
Easton Cook
>doesn't have automatic dependency resolution
still trash, owo
Wyatt Rodriguez
I used Slackware for more than 10 years. It was a very good exercise and I still love it, but for real deployment I'm on Debian and CentOS now.
Noah Cox
I'll probably check it out at some point, because pathologically distro hopping, but not handling dependencies automatically is kind of a deal breaker for me, at least when it comes to daily usage.
Cooper Rodriguez
It was my first distro back in 2004. Installed it on a Dell 640m and barely anything worked. It booted and that was it, no sound, no wifi, screen was the wrong resolution, etc. I learned a lot about linux by setting everything up, compiling my own packages, hunting dependencies and libraries, compiling my own kernel, patching the kernel... Later I switched to Debian but I feel Slackware was a necessary first step.
That said, sometimes I still get an urge to install it, but then I remember I don't have time to mess around with it or hunt dependencies, I need a distro that just works.
Lucas Young
as a fans on slackware I love it, If you have alot of time, this distro is to you. Now I use windows.
Ryan Foster
It was my first distro in 1995. Other than newer packages, it hasn’t changed a bit. It doesn’t have a package manager for Christ’s sake. It has no place in 2018.
Logan Smith
Sure, but we should also not forget how great Plan9 was. Somebody’s brining it back to life too. Does Slackware treat all devices as files?
Landon Scott
Jose Wright
It's an interesting relic and a good way to teach us how hard it was in the past for Linux users but you have to have a lot of nostalgia and a lot of free time to use it as your daily driver.
Jaxon Ortiz
It's quite telling that Slax, has switched from Slackware to Debian.
There's only so much time you can waste on manual dependency resolution.
William Walker
The intent of Slackware: to achieve "Slack" through ease of use, reliability, durability, and the rejection of unnecessary, mainstream "flash and sizzle" utilities.
Only a Slackware user can truly understand what it means to give absolutely 0 fucks.
Nicholas Ross
lacking dependency resolution doesn't sound like ease of use to me
William Ramirez
To be fair, in a world where most softwares sucked didn't suck ass, Slackware would be my first choice.
But manual dependency resolution in this shit world is too much for me.
Gabriel Butler
Agreed, a good list of up to date packages that automatically installs dependencies is my idea of zen.
Aaron Ortiz
>uwu in the name field
You're trash.
Samuel Sanders
yes