Why Slackware?

dugan · 11-06-2012, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Pixxt

Because there is no PulseAudio or SystemD crap in it!!!

Or SELinux, which just gets in your way if you don't need it (and I don't).

Plus, it's easier to build your own packages for Slackware than for almost any other distribution. That comes in handy sometimes.

bobzilla · 11-06-2012, 01:36 PM

hackability
stabillity
simplicity
beauty
control
freedom
great community

Enough?

solarfields · 11-06-2012, 01:42 PM

because Bob says so

brianL · 11-06-2012, 02:06 PM

I've tried most of the other major distros, all except Gentoo, and Slackware suits me best. Maybe a psychiatrist could explain exactly why, but I can't...weird, ain't it?

rinias · 11-06-2012, 07:30 PM

Because it's subversive.

Install Slackware, set it up a bit (these days, that mostly doesn't even take effort any more!), and use it a bit. Then do what you like. If you leave, one day, you find yourself thinking "This slowed down, this doesn't work like it used to, this did something weird, why does this do that?!"

And then you'll know : it's not Slackware.

You just can't beat it. Other systems try to improve on it, but they inevitably mess up somewhere, and that just won't cut it.

rinias · 11-06-2012, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

Maybe a psychiatrist could explain exactly why, but I can't...weird, ain't it?

I dunno, considering the majority of your posts here, I'd say no.

qweasd · 11-06-2012, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by solarfields

because Bob[sic] says so

Praise "Bob"!

brianL · 11-07-2012, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by rinias

I dunno, considering the majority of your posts here, I'd say no.

Yeah...lol.

The Emacs psychotherapist hasn't been much help:

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I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are
finished talking, type RET twice.

Why did I choose Slackware?

What do you think?

I'm asking you

Why do you say?

Why do I say what?

I'll ask the questions, if you don't mind!

Go on then. Ask me something.

Is it because of your plans that you say?

What plans?

Maybe your life has something to do with this.

If I wasn't alive, I wouldn't have chosen Slackware.

What makes you believe?

I don't

Is it because of the people you hang around with that you say?

No, nobody I hang round with uses Slackware

Perhaps problems at school have something to do with this.

I left school 52 years ago

Tell me about your school.

It's been demolished

weibullguy · 11-07-2012, 10:30 AM

If you have to ask "How much?", you can't afford it. If you have to ask "Why Slackware?", you haven't used it.

GazL · 11-07-2012, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

It's been demolished

ROFL!

bobzilla · 11-07-2012, 12:09 PM

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No, nobody I hang round with uses Slackware

This sounds familiar.

But at least some of them are using Linux.

jstg · 11-07-2012, 01:10 PM

It does what I ask it to do and doesn't complain until I give it a reason to complain. And honestly for someone like me who isn't exactly Linux savvy it's nice having a stable system to learn and tinker with compared to something like a rolling release distro. Sure I'll get to learn a lot when it breaks, but it's easier for me to start with something stable that I can break myself.

Martinus2u · 11-07-2012, 02:41 PM

ffs stop it. OP hasn't shown up since so this is an obvious and very successful troll.

TobiSGD · 11-07-2012, 04:04 PM

I can't see a flamewar or heated discussion, so if this is in fact a troll it is not very successful, IMHO.

ReaperX7 · 11-07-2012, 10:06 PM

How can you troll Slackware? It's self-defeating and always ends up countered.