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by DallaRosa
4612 days ago
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I've passed through a few distributions (Slackware -> Conectiva -> RedHat -> Mandrake -> SuSe -> Debian -> Slackware) till I stuck with Slackware and have been using it for the last 10+ years. Slackware 3.6, my first distribution was really scary but it's been a few years since I had to do too much of basic configuration by hand. Of course some stuff took me sometime but right now I can use the touchscreen on my laptop, listen to music using my bluetooth headphones, use the HDMI to show video and play audio with THAT much work. <ad> If you need some tips checkout my blog http://dallarosa.tumblr.com </ad> For the people complaining about Slackware's package system:
I don't what's people's problem with dependency management. Doing everything from existing packages is great while packages exist. When you're out in the wild and can't have proper packages You'll see all kinds of weird stuff. The most interesting problem I had was Debian trying to uninstall the kernel and all basic libs cause I was trying to install a newer version of Qt. For those calling Slack users arrogant:
I think we can talk about arrogant people in any area. But as someone already mentioned, if you take a look at LinuxQuestions, you'll see that people have been nice for the last 10 years or more. I never had a question been answered with arrogance or bad manners. Most people were very helpful. Slackware is a great distribution and I intend to keep using it for as long as I use a computer :) |
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I've been waiting for this release for about 2 weeks, since my laptop died and I had to replace it, and the installation of Slackware 14 didn't transfer too well (no networking) so I decided to wait out 14.1, since the changelogs were saying there were so close to release time anyway.
Lots of people are sceptical of Slackware and I can understand those sentiments fine. Slackware is simply my personal preference for two super simple reasons (and a lot of other minor reasons).
1: It makes me feel at home. I never fear I won't be able to do something, or find something. The whole thing is made to be configurable and it is.
2: It's never in my way when I want to do something. I never cussed at Slackware for doing something stupid. I have to do everything myself anyway! :D
Packages; I love the package management. Not that Debian's package manager doesn't absolutely rock imho, because I think it does, but Debian is like the neighbor: the house is almost the same, but it still feels more foreign than my own house, which I decorated myself and all that. I get my packages from SlackBuilds most of the time. I love SlackBuilds, too. I think that there's almost nothing missing between Slackware's fairly broad software library and SlackBuilds for almost everything else.
I did run Ubuntu on my laptop for years. I tried every new release of Ubuntu for 5 or 6 years and I was always genuinely excited. But then they started making mistakes. PulseAudio didn't work the first time they included it. One time, an update broke X. The video driver (Nvidia) was updated too and they decided that my videocard was suddenly no longer supported. That was plain stupid. And then they moved to Unity, which I didn't really care for. I've been back on Slackware since 13, I think, and I will not let go of it. It's just my OS of choice, even if there are other beautiful Linux distributions out there. :)
Patrick, my hat is off to you and your team, for keeping this beautiful operating system going. May it have many, many years of life left in it. I'll be there to see it and use it. :)