You win nothing, but you lose your soul! Mwhahahaha!!!

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A life-size blow-up Lennart Poettering doll - autographed, too! Congratulations!!!

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I think I'll have that diverted I already have a kid at home

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/i...ment-117440963

Be careful: you are walking on a slippery slope and there's no water left in the pool after the previous threads on systemd.

So let's keep this one's topic as just the fun (!??) of comparing apples vs oranges.

Furthermore IMHO comparing boot times of different distribution is a long dead horse. Maybe leave that to Phoronix. That's not to despise Michael Larabel's work, as at least he provides heads up that I often read with interest.

I was recently dual-booting 14.1 & 8, mostly to see for myself what That-Which-Should-Not-Be-Named was like. I didn't actually time the booting (not that fussy about it), but there didn't seem to be much difference. 8 certainly took longer than 3 seconds. Both were running KDE.

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I actually like him and like to poke fun at him too.

Typing one handed here...

I do that all the time...but not always for the same reason.

Heh-heh.

Amusing.

I thought this thread was going downhill from the first post. Now it's nearly underground.

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For one thing I was impressed with Debian 8: shutdown time is amazingly quick.

Now, that's an advantage which really counts, because I really want to shutdown Debian much more often than I want to shutdown Slackware, so optimisations went into a locally very popular function there.

gargamel

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For those who didn't get it: This was purely ironic. In fact, noone can really deny that Debian used to be a very good distro with a very ambitious design goal (to be completely made of FOSS), that only recently got into heavy water, being forked etc. I still find the achievements of the Debian community totally admirable, as a testimony of what is possible with only FOSS! I just prefer Slackware, because:

Debian is designed to be free, Slackware is designed to be useful.

Cheers!

As someone who recently switched from Debian (10 years of only Debian) to Slackware, I can confirm that Debian is not what it once was. I really don't think that comparing Debian to Slackware is a worthy discussion. It's comparing apples and oranges. Sure they are both round. However, they both taste different, are different colors, and have different textures.

Last year's Debian <that will not be named> drama was a pain in the butt to listen to; it was impossible to be a member of any Debian mailing lists due to the constant banter. The Debian community is just an irritating garbled cesspool of arguments any time some new change is implemented. Also, many parts of the Debian installation have pulled in massive dependency bloat.

While most people say Slackware is more challenging than other distros, I've found it to be refreshing. Slackware stays out of the way and lets me remain productive.

I am just disappointed I didn't switch to Slackware sooner.

I'm glad you're enjoying Slackware. You will find Slackware to be addictive. I do try out distros from time to time, but, I always come home to Slackware. Stay awhile and enjoy yourself. Praise Bob.