As suggested in an other thread : slackware ? What for ?

Me :
5 laptops
1 home server
1 server
Several machines I do not own but maintain for family I do not live with.

Most x86_64, arm and x86.

You ?

For every day use: mail, news, surf and search (docs).

1. One P4 2.4Ghz running 14.2 stable (at the moment playing with qemu-2.8 and old Slack versions).
2. One Core2duo (E8500) for Slackware64-current, update via rsync.
3. Another Core2duo (E8500) for Slackware64_14.2-stable (boot via UEFI) and 15.0 will be installed on.

All are in a local network (additional nic-cards for 2. & 3.) via a switch Gbits (DLINK 8 ports) for
sharing datas
But what PJV is using? :P I saw somewhere that he's own a core i7 for his mass-compilations.. I'm curious

My desktop runs slackware but my laptop runs AntiX. It has only one core and 1 GB of memory so I need something lightweight.

My main Slackware is 14.2 but I have a partial -current on another partition which I will upgrade as soon as it becomes the new release.

current on a couple of general purpose desktops and a file back up server I keep off site. The server is going to shift to 15.0 after it finishes beta, desktops probably too.

I run Slackware on most of my stuff.

2 - KVM hosts (x86_64)
Dozenish - VMs running various servers for games, web apps, and PowerPC64LE build mirror. (x86_64)
1 - Everyday desktop (PowerPC64LE RiscySlack)
1 - Gaming desktop (x86_64)
2 laptops - x86_64 and PowerPC (Slackintosh)
1 - PowerMac G4 - Build system (RiscySlack)

various Raspberry Pi for playing with (Sarpi)

Awaiting arrival of an ARM server board so I can setup a new Slackware ARM server.

My main desktop runs Slackware64-current and KDE-plasma; it's a Dell 9020 with an i7 CPU at 3.40 GHz, 16 GB RAM, and an SSD. I also have a T410 Thinkpad running a dual boot of Slackware64-current/OpenBSD 6.8 with XFCE on both operating systems, with an i5 CPU at 2.40 GHz, 4 GB RAM.

I run Slackware-current occasionally to check its progress, and keep it up to date. I use it in a chroot to build the Slint installer, now based on Slackware-current's libs and executable binaries. I also use the sources of some of its packages (taken from a local mirror synced as need be) to upgrade the corresponding software in Slint. This is on the laptop that I mainly use to maintain Slint.

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Main is an x86_64 tower multibooting with both 14.2 and -current, and with other distros and another OS. Slackware is running the most for everyday use, Xubuntu 20.04 getting the 2nd most use.

SlackwareARM on Raspberry Pi 4 I use now for some everyday use and for programming an Arduino Uno for home hobby projects, and soon for programming ESP32 and/or STM32 boards.

On x86_64, I was at first intending to run -current in testing only from the time of vtown launch to the launch of 15.0, then doing a fresh installation of 15.0 and eventually wiping 14.2 and -current, but I’m now thinking of keeping -current.

I’ve learned a few things running -current, and I was able to report a problem, so my tiny contribution (although somebody else found the workaround.) I will probably update -current less frequently after installing 15.0, only when security updates appear.

Near future: SlackwareAArch on Raspberry Pi 4. SlackwareARM on a Chromebook, if i can I can figure out how to coax it in.

TKS

I've got slackware on a desktop and a laptop (both current, both xfce). Primarily I do a lot of audio (csound, supercollider). I game a lot, too. (Proton, wine, native if it exists.)

Current on my laptop, which gets hammered daily.

Current on the computer in my study, which I use to log in to work whenever I do work at home. This computer also runs rsnapshot via a cron job to manage my off-site office backups. It also gets used as a media server and front-end for my NAS, which is too old to get updates itself.

In the office, I have 2 Slackware VMs. Both stable, but without the GUI installed. One acts as a "backup server". It takes daily backups and serves them to the machine at home. The other Slackware VM is my OpenVPN server, which not only makes all of these inter-connections possible, but does it securely. That VM doesn't do anything else. Both VMs are running on ESXi which is installed on an Intel NUC 8i5.

At a friend's office, I set up an old machine of his to run OpenVPN and manage his backups.

All done with Slackware & no licensing headaches.

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Our family computers:

one i5 desktop, 14.2;
one i5 desktop dualbooting 14.2 and current;
one Ryzen 3 file server, 14.2;
one Dell Inspiron 11 3000* used for sorting photos on trips, 14.2;
one (early) i7 laptop dualbooting 14.2 and windows 7 (windows for two applications only, Slackware for my cat's youtubing (EVERYBODY in my home uses Slackware)).

*Purchased because of low price - only recommended if you can live with no documentation and no help from Dell.

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1 in an old laptop
2 in a gaming pc with two systems, Gentoo and Slackware current.

I use slackware for riot dispersion: I just start yammering on and on about it until I'm talking to an empty street...

I also use slackware anytime an operating system is required, and currently have it running on these devices:

thinkpads and ideapads
marvel guruplug
raspberry pi
banana pi
pinebook pro (slarm64)
pinephone (slarm64)
and I run slackware on some Linode virtual private servers.

I'm eagerly awaiting the risc-v beagleboards!

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My main machine: an '07 Thinkpad,
My Wife's Big Thinkpad,
Four of her girlfriends' Thinkpads;
A Teacher, Massage Therapist, Nurse, and a Business Manager.
My "girlfriend" and her Brother's Thinkpads,
My Wife's Aunt and Uncle - a Thinkcentre, and a Thinkpad, respectively.
(You bet I'm on Pat's Patreon!)

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-current on a 5 years old intel-based Asus laptop.
Use it for undergraduate coursework, ML programming, graphics editing, gaming, web dev etc..