Worst Distro Ever

the trooper · 01-12-2010, 03:37 PM

LMAO!!.
Quality post there carbonfiber.

GrapefruiTgirl · 01-12-2010, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

LOL. Funniest thing I've read for ages.

I second that notion

-- carbonfibers post was definitely humorous! I'm still trying to decide if he/she MEANT all that, or was just trying to start something :/

mostlyharmless · 01-12-2010, 04:05 PM

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It was Slackware. I made a bootable floppy and a root floppy because PCs could not boot from CD. The floppies had some sort of minimal Linux with an installer which read the the CD.

Clearly pure Evil!

I thought this was supposed to be for the Worst Distro, not the best; I kind of miss the old boot/root disks. Makes me nostalgic, I must be one of the old farts using linux since 1993 that carbonfiber was referring to. BTW, did anyone but me notice that he/she said there were two kinds of slackware users and then listed three types?

I never did care for the cutting edge distros with their frequent updates that unexpectedly break your system - so in that vein - stable ubuntus are better than the other ubuntus and Fedora is broken most of the time, IMO. Nonetheless, FC certainly seems to have longevity and some popularity, so I guess there's a distro for everyone, even Hannah Montana.

carbonfiber · 01-12-2010, 04:19 PM

*bows* Thank you, thank you, what a wonderful crowd we have here tonight. You guys are great.

P.S.: It's funny because it's true, am I right? Am I right? Ahahaha

P.P.S.: mostlyharmless: I listed two types, unless I forgot how to count. As for Hannah, I think she's more of a BSD kind of person.

brianL · 01-12-2010, 04:24 PM

Of course you are...
...wrong. Ahahahahahaha!

newbiesforever · 01-12-2010, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl

I second that notion

-- carbonfibers post was definitely humorous! I'm still trying to decide if he/she MEANT all that, or was just trying to start something :/

I recognized it as parody, and liked it well enough, but I thought that as a parody of obnoxious nerds, it wasn't exactly sidesplitting. He didn't even say "Worst...distro...ever." I think my parody of NBA fanboys was funnier.

carbonfiber · 01-12-2010, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by newbiesforever

He didn't even say "Worst...distro...ever."

Yes I did. Ahahahahaha

mostlyharmless · 01-12-2010, 04:28 PM

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Only two kinds of people use Slackware:

(1) newbies who think using Slackware will make them "learn",

(2)"real men", "good with the ladies" and give them "geek street credibility";

(3) and regular users who consider themselves advanced and enlightened, always replying to posts as this one saying "i've been using linux since 1993 so i'm not a newbie and i still like slackware"

Modified quote with numbers, guess you forgot how to count! Or was there supposed to be another word between (1) and (2)?

brianL · 01-12-2010, 04:31 PM

I fall into categories (1) and (2), definitely.

carbonfiber · 01-12-2010, 04:33 PM

I see where you are failing in an epic manner, sir. You see, let me explain:

Species: Slackware users

Subspecies #1: Newbies who think using Slackware will make them: (attention mostlyharmless, a LIST follows! do not be confused by the ingeniously placed commas and the pretty colors!) "learn", "real men", "good with the ladies" (notice: list ends here!) and "give them street credibility"

Subspecies #2: (you got this one right, nice!)

mostlyharmless · 01-12-2010, 04:34 PM

Maybe he was saying (1) would make newbies into "real men", that would make sense too. I wouldn't try that line on a date though. Wasn't there another thread about this subject on this forum?

Whoops, beat me typing carbonfiber, OK, fair enough.

brianL · 01-12-2010, 04:35 PM

Yeah, (1) and (2) are to be read together:

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Only two kinds of people use Slackware: newbies who think using Slackware will make them "learn", "real men", "good with the ladies" and give them "geek street credibility"; and regular users who consider themselves advanced and enlightened, always replying to posts as this one saying "i've been using linux since 1993 so i'm not a newbie and i still like slackware"

brianL = subspecies #1

newbiesforever · 01-12-2010, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by carbonfiber

Yes I did. Ahahahahaha

You did indeed. Sorry, my mistake. You can't mock nerds without saying "worst...[word]...ever."

lupusarcanus · 01-12-2010, 04:48 PM

Umm...well, sorry to ruin everybody's fun here; I must comment. If I may ask, really and in all seriousness, why do Slackware users use Slackware?

I tried Slackware, and well I first noticed that the recommended install was very bloated, and it does come with sub-par package-management. I sort of agree with that post, to which some found very humorous, and well...he's right.

It seems to me that all Slackware really is, is just a vanilla GNU/Linux distro with many programs and minimal modifications to the kernel; is that why everyone likes it so much?

It seems to me that many Slackware users are hormonal adolescent males who seem keen on the thought that it suddenly makes the "elite." Slackware follows KISS, or claims to, but yet has an easy as pie ncurses based installer that if allowed to do a recommended install, is just another bloated version of KDE.

Personally, I learned much more using Arch Linux and building my distro block-by-block up from the ground.

So, without trying to start a flame war, or ruin anyones fun, or even allowing to much of my opinion to be built up in my post, and lastly not trying to be mean to anyone, may I humbly ask for an explanation as to why Slackware users use Slackware?

Thanks

GrapefruiTgirl · 01-12-2010, 05:03 PM

There is a thread elsewhere, called something like "Why do you use Slackware", and probably a few dozen others just like it if you peruse the /Slackware forum long enough to find them.

Getting into this discussion here in a hard-core way would really be dragging the thread off topic. If you must, you could REPORT this post, and ask that it be moved to its own thread, where people can comment

Sasha