Why did you come back to Slackware/ why do you use Slackware again?
Since we had few similar themed threads, I figured there might be users of "prodigal son" variety?
1. Why did you leave in the 1st place? 2. Why did You come back? 3. Is this your first come back, if not what is the count? I personally had few back and forth-s: 1. Had to use Windows for some silly compatibility reason/personal lack of knowledge 2. It can't be managed stability and security wise, had to go back to a sane Linux 3. Quite a few times now |
Interesting. I've never completely switched away from Slackware. Slackware is comfortable with rock-like stability, security. I sometimes flirt with Debian, but, always come home.
I do have one older Lenovo T410 Thinkpad running OpenBSD 6.3. |
I also have never left. I've played with other distros and have come to quite like Debian and Mageia, but I have always had at least one Slackware box, and it is always the one that I consider my "primary" computer.
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The second time I left I was in university, and I was distro-hopping: Ubuntu then Debian then Slackware then Arch. I kept Arch for a couple of years and a dozens reinstalls. Quote:
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I explained a bit in IRC but (and I know this is taboo around here) the dependency package "issues" seem to have been solved by `sqg`... What a powerful tool! I don't understand how AlienBOB can maintain and do everything he does...
I was even able to get a new kernel installed without breaking Lilo in about 30 minutes even though I hadn't done it in years. I was a Slackware user from the '90s and had moved on to Debian around mid 2k. I'm slowly migrating back over to slack as I get reacquainted with the 'new' enhancements within the last few years. I also realized I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes in Debian (especially SystemD) even though it just works. |
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Slackware has but always been my go-to Linux. Workwise we used CentOS, but I could easily keep up using Slackware :-). Slackware I have left numerous times (being a distro-hoe), but I have always come back to it. However, of lately, I have left it for MX-Linux for one reason only. MX-Linux makes my 'Lenovo W520' run 20C degrees cooler than Slackware. I do not know WHY that is and I can't be bothered to find out. The day I start having problems with MX-Linux, I will be right back to Slackware (yet again). I hate 'systemd', but as long as it works, I will accept it. Still, all my desktop computers (all 5 of them, print/file server included) are running Slackware and will never run anything else but for brief encounters with anything else (I did mention I was a distro-hoe, didn't I?). My file/print server will never ever run anything but Slackware.
I use a lot of external usb-drives, and every one of them (no exceptions) have some 20-odd GB's set aside (and installed) for a bootable Slackware on them. That way - the usb-drive can be taken away, booted on its own and file maintenance/recovery/backup can be performed through the command line (or xfce if neccessary). |
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I used Slackware 9.1-10.2 (maybe that was 12.0 I forget), 14.1-on. |
Why did you come back to Slackware/ why do you use Slackware again?
Around 2008 my laptop was getting old and my new wife owned bright new Apple machines.
I've switched using more powerful machines, playing around trying to get used to it while she gave me her old smartphones. When we broke I bought a brand new laptop. After a week, couldn't keep this Windows 8 on it. I thought first Slackware was dead, not seeing any new release for ages and started with Debian. I messed everything up in a few weeks with a bad understanding of what this weird dependency managing is. Then saw that current was still alive. So happy to be back with what I strongly believe is the best distro ever. |
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Note: It was just this week that I got the BSD loaded. I put FreeBSD into VirtualBox. I really don't like the way it runs there, so will probably put it in the SSD soon. |
I've used Slackware since around 2010 as my main day to day OS. I have and have had at least 3 desktops and 1 laptop running Slackware. My basement system has win7/Slackware 14.1, my secondary system has the same and my primary had win7/Slackware 14.2.
Recently I began to have issues with the sound and also with e22 in my main system and as I had a newer problem AMD video card I decided to try some alternatives. My options were limited as I won't use Systemd ever and the distros I tried all had issues. In the end I decided to go back to Slackware 14.1 using e17. It may be a little dated but in all the years I've used it I never had any issues and still consider it to be the best Slackware release so far. |
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I suppose I came back to Slackware for the same reasons I left: I want a distro that is somewhat stable but still offers fairly up-to-date software and dependency resolution (dependecy resolution!? Yes, let me get to that.) I ran Slackware-stable for about 3 years (14.1 then 14.2), then decided to switch to Gentoo/Funtoo because I thought running -current would be more trouble than it was worth. I'm glad I tried the Gentoo family of distros, because outside of compiling (and compiling, and then re-compiling, and then re-re-compiling, and then re-re-re-compiling because you forgot those two USE flags you needed), portage is a pretty great package manager. But after too many USE-flag conflicts and weird this-package-exists-in-two-categories-and-will-break-one-package-or-the-other scenarios, I decided to try Slackware-current. Fortunately, I also discovered slackrepo and slapt-get. Those two together with their really excellent dependency resolution have made Slackware64-current the best OS I've ever used. May Slack never look back, and move always forward.
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The only time I completely "left" Slackware was with my first computer in 2004, in my distrohopping days. It only had a 20 GB HDD, the major share of which was taken up by the legendary Windows ME. So triple-booting was out of the question. If I wanted to try another distro, then Slackware had to go - but only temporarily.
Now I only use Slackware, having lost interest in trying other distros. And the only windows I have are glass. |
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