Funny. That's exactly why I dropped it. Everything worked. Boring.

In my case with SuSE some things worked, some other didn't and some other broke after some time.

I researched through some forums, including the one here in LQ.org and found out that SuSE 10.1 was released with a bunch of bugs, particularly some nasty ones in the Yast and online update thing. I noticed that, as in the first update something just stopped working and left me with a half-updated KDE and several things broken, including my beloved konsole; no one messes up with my konsole. I rebooted outright to Slackware and never came back (I must admit that I'm miss the XGL thing, I hope it be included in a future Slackware release)

Well.. the 6.1 installer is quite similar to 4.x installers, 5.x installers, 6.0 installer [I don't have experience with other versions of FreeBSD]. A bit of a note: I think Slackware got it's installer-look from (Free)BSD, not the other way arround.

Agreed, I think you're correct. Slackware is the most unix-like Linux. I love slack.

I'm a big fan of Arch linux nowdays when i'm not using slackware.

Arch is great for desktop use which I now actualy prefer, expecially on my IBM T43p Laptop detects just about everything and is dead easy to install and configue things with pacman.

Currently not running any linux distro as my main OS for my main home computer atm. but that'll change soon when I finally get another monitor for dualscreen. When I do Arch will again probally be used.

Slackware defnetly is my prefered distribution for servers and mission critical systems due to its reliability i have had with it for the past few years.

@Shrambo: Personally, I must be a complete idiot because I cannot get that distro to install; and I really wanted to as arch users seem like slack users, very in love with their distro. I've tried 5 times, and even pulled down another iso. It just takes a dive on me during it's pacman after I select packages and hit go. I finally got gentoo to work, but I cant do Arch

I found arch dead easy to install. Found it alot easier infact than alot of alternate distros that I have tried based on slackware. Such as vectorlinux. That was ok but disliked the debian / ubuntu installer as it didn't give me very much control over my install, expecially partitioning my drives.

On the flipside back in 04 when I tried gentoo I failed hehe.

Eh .. what are you talking about? The debian/ubuntu installers give you all the freedom you need with partitioning, amongst others.

OpenBSD here. I'm actually no longer using Slack on my desktop machine. I'm beginning to agree with critics that Slackware is more suited for servers and production machines rather than a bleeding edge desktop system. I'm also too lazy to resolve dependencies of half the stuff I install. I think the thing that did it for me was when I started configuring my OpenBSD firewall, I noticed that its package manager was checking dependencies for me, and I never experienced that before! Slackware was my first true Linux experience.

But even though I'm using Ubuntu on my desktop, I'm quickly beginning to see the limitations of a fully graphical distro and I MISS SLACKWARE!!!

I think Debian installer gives enough freedom to setup the partitions. The only thing I don't like is their menu for choosing which packages to install. I like the menuing system that Slackware provides better.

sweetnsourbkr: You can check distributions such as Arch (and if you have a bit of extra time) Gentoo [and others providing automatic package dependency solving yet not being GUI centered]. If you like OpenBSD and think you might like BSD, give FreeBSD a try on the desktop.

Heh, that's why whenever I install Debian I just go for a "minimal" installation and install everything else later manually via apt.

It's been a long time since I installed Debian (around when sarge was testing), but I think the Debian installer uses aptitude for package selection. And aptitude is not the most friendly package navigation tool.

I have tried DesktopBSD and it seemed rather flaky. If I would press auto on my LCD the whole screen would go nuts. Now freeBSD, that is a beast. I installed it and I must say, it does not hold your hand at all. But man, talk about a stable OS. I was going to use it for a firewall/VPN appliance I am building but I am looking into Distro's such as smoothwall or devil linux now.

Thing I hate about dependency checking is when it goes flaky and wants to remove all gnome or KDE when you try to remove one non-core program - which has happened to me more than once with aptitude

Edit: clarified

Yes. Agreed. FreeBSD is a robust distro indeed. I just completed an install of FreeBSD on monday. I'm now having fun learning about Unix. I've installed ports, now I just need to figure out how to use it:-)