Nice! I look forward to the day when we can ditch MS altogether. My wife needs it to tunnel in to her proprietary network.
I only use Slackware and BSD.

Get a new wife?

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This solution category has come up before in this forum. Perhaps it will gain in popularity if it successfully fixes problems.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0/#post5143293

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I have also tried to get my wife into Linux by installing Mint on her spare laptop. It came to nothing: she knows Windows and she's comfortable with it, end of story.

Mine seems okay with the idea of switching to Linux one day when her Macbook finally bites the dust. The only problem is that her brother is a devoted Apple fanboy and keeps sending her Apple stuff (the Macbook and a phone or two). Though I shouldn't really call that a problem, because at least this way I don't have to pay for it.

Wow. I have no words.

running wife-current might wreck your car?

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I've successfully converted my wife to using linux

I have W10 and Slackware in dual boot setup, so she can choose, but she has to press F11 at boot to get into the UEFI selection menu of the motherboard to select Windows So eventually she just gave up and now she is comfortable with Slackware. She even learnt how to wire up her USB keyboard to Ardour using cadence (i have jack2 running).

Is there a need emerging to start one "when will you convert your wife to Slackware" thread?

Yes. Let's go all out, might as well at this point.

Why did you stop using Slackware?
Why did you start using Slackware?
Why did you come back to Slackware?
What do you like to drink while using Slackware?
Why have you failed to get your wife to use Slackware?
How many Slackware users does it take to change a light bulb?
If Slackware was a cake what kind of cake would it be?
You're stuck on a mountain with a torch, an inflatable dinghy and a Slackware disk, which do you take home to meet your parents?

I could go on, but I won't [for everyone's sake].

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Just me.

# installpkg lightbulb-1.0-x86_64-1.txz

Wouldn't that be upgradepkg?

not if he ran before that

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If you're not sure a lightbulb is already installed, use:
It only takes one to change a lightbulb, but another 5 Slackers will argue in a 6+ page thread on LQ whether lightbulbs violate the KISS principle, and shouldn't we all still use candles.

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Well, back in 2004 or so, the many thousands of packages in Debian's repositories and the easy way to install them were really enticing...

I never really left, I've always had a Slackware machine running, in various roles, during all these years. I switched my firewall to OpenBSD in 2009 or so (and then decommissioned after I moved...) but a bunch of other things stayed, various servers etc.. My main work machine ran Slackware from 2012 onwards because everything else kept breaking.

But I definitely have more Slackware machines than before, yeah. That's because SlackBuilds became more numerous and more easy to manage (that's the main reason, along with AlienBob's excellent repo), and because as the amount of free time I had decreased, my need for a stable system increased and Slackware is a very good choice for that.

I had two attempts to switch back to Slackware on all my machines, one when 11.0 was released (and in fact I kept it running on my home firewall), the other one when 12.2 was released. But those were slightly more troubled times :-).