Slackware to Debian switch, final?

rickh · 09-21-2007, 08:15 AM

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Long story short, I always returned home, to Slackware that is. Now I think that may not be the case, since I'm already on Debian for a month now, and it's not annoying me at all.

I'm a Debian whore, and I don't mind admitting it, but I get more and more irritated at the Debian installation process which makes it easy for Linux newbies to get Debian up and running ... wrong. "The Debian Way," means a lot to me, but the waves of Ubuntu refugees (who never even took the time to learn Ubuntu) are injuring what was once a dependable environment.

If you are a person already comfortable and efficient in a "real" distro, but want an alternative, for comparison, or just for fun, you'd be well advised to consider Debian, and take the time to learn to do it right.

If you're fresh from Windows, and hear that Debian is "cool," stay the heck away ... We already have too many of you.

Okie · 09-21-2007, 08:45 AM

i too been a longtime slackware user, and find gentoo quite interesting, what i did was while still booted to slackware was download a stage3 tarball and unpack it to where i wanted gentoo installed then downloaded the mini install CD-burnt & booted it, and followed the gentoo handbook to mount & chroot the gentoo partition & built a kernel then rebooted to my new gentoo install and kept working on it until i have a complete system with everything necessary to satisfy my needs...

crashmeister · 09-21-2007, 09:03 AM

Actually the Debian install always was easy.You did need to be able to read though.

I've had it with Gentoo - wouldn't install it on a trash compactor anymore.Last time I checked even the default,stable,x86 branch didn't compile.
I used Gentoo for years but lately (actually since Drobbins turned it over to the incapables) things are just annoying.

Okie · 09-21-2007, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by crashmeister

I've had it with Gentoo - wouldn't install it on a trash compactor anymore.Last time I checked even the default,stable,x86 branch didn't compile.
I used Gentoo for years but lately (actually since Drobbins turned it over to the incapables) things are just annoying.

works great here, if gentoo was giving me unresolvable problems i surely would have dumped it just as fast as i could boot up slackware and run rm -r /mnt/gentoo/*

Dutch Master · 09-21-2007, 09:37 AM

I understand Rickh's sentiments, but don't agree with everything. The "culture of Win-OS" teaches users to 'ask ask ask, never ever RTFM' 'cause that laziness is the most convenient. Unfortunately the majority of 'converts' to Linux come with that exact attitude and expect (read as: demand) to be helped "the Win-OS way". Sorry, for those we don't have time. But there are people that genuinely really want to learn about Linux and I welcome them generously. But do expect the dreaded RTFM sometimes, not everyone can/wish to relate to their own newbee days in Linux...