[DEADMINCE]

Slackware lost it's way when it tried to comepte with desktop distros but didn't really commit to it.

I used to like it as a minimal distro that just stayed out of my way and considered it oriented towards slightly more technical folk.

Then the community would be hostile if you were digging in to an issue and didn't do a full install because that's the recommended way. And not doing so would also result in stupid issues due to stupid dependencies like mplayer not working because samba was not installed.

Alpine is an improvement over Slackware in every way.