Slackware 15.0, I'm being spoiled and getting lazy

So, for the longest time I was using Mageia 3-6 as a distro, after a decade of using various distroes, I could just sit back and enjoy with little effort. It's a good distro, and one of the best SystemD distroes there are. It keeps the classic Gnuish/Linuxish type of behaviours, unlike many other SystemD distroes. This might be despite or regardless of SystemD actually, but it nonetheless had a feeling of a power distro for power users, where you are free to do things your way, and unhindered by weird distro specific behaviours. As a previous user of Slackware and Debian among others, this felt comfortable. And believe me, I've tried many other distroes that are not like that, which really got on my nerves.

Despite all this, there came a time where the problems and issues of SystemD just couldn't be hidden or overcome. Naturally as a previous Slackware user, I had tested various later distro versions as well, like 13.37, 14.0, 14.1 etc, but they weren't really to my liking and I was in a place of prioritizing comfort, while also using a distro which allowed me power over it. Around this time I started looking at the development of Slackware again, and what looked to be an approach towards Slackware 15.0. And man was I impressed with what I was seeing. As time passed and the development of what would become Slackware 15.0 continued, it was looking to become everything that I would want from a distro. Overcoming some "shortcomings" of Slackware 14.2, and surpassing Mageia on many elements. In any case, Slackware 15.0 looked like a distro of perfect timing, where all the perfect software versions were just coming together at the perfect time.

So, I decided to switch back to Slackware, mostly because I wanted to get greasy and dirty again, but also due to the limitations SystemD places on a distro. So, the time WAS perfect, and the migration WAS perfect. Slackware 15.0 turned into becoming what I expected, a "perfect" distro (version). I had layed a bunch of plans before migrating to Slackware, and I started implementing these plans as I migrated. I was getting greasy and dirty and doing the things I wanted and had planned, and everything was perfect, Slackware 15.0 was superb. But that's when the problems started....
Not because of anything Slackware 15.0 did, not because something was wrong, but actually because things were too bloody good! I had set up my systems as I wanted, and started using them.. But then I got too comfortable, Slackware 15.0 was just too good, and made me lazy. It put me into the comfort zone, I could just sit back and enjoy it too much, which was causing the issue of lazyness and not getting greasy and dirty anymore. That's how good Slackware 15.0 is, it just works too well, and all the great software versions DID coincide at the perfect time. That's not to say that I HAVE to stay in the comfort zone, I already did alot of things with Slackware 15.0, and I can continue with that, there is nothing preventing me from doing that, except the comfort that creates a kind of lazyness.

That's just to say that Slackware 15.0 is an excellent distro, both for comfort users and for power users. While power users never lacked anything with Slackware, comfort users on the other hand might have lacked a thing or two in the past. But that's simply not the case anymore. So, thanks for an excellent release btw..

Now I have to pick myself up, and get out of the lazy zone again, and ready to get my hands dirty. Afterall, this was one of the prime reasons I switched back to Slackware in the first place, to extend my learning and knowhow of GNU/Linux, which is somewhat possible in other distroes, and quite possible in Mageia, but nowhere else as possible as it is in Slackware.

I've been thinking about it for a long time, how Slackware was my first GNU/Linux distro, and how that affected things. I've also been thinking about how that compares to modern users who might start their GNU/Linux journey with something like Ubuntu. Man am I glad I started with Slackware, it's almost like a learning distro is how I see it. It just encourage users to dig in deep, experiment and have fun with it (if that's the kind of thing you find fun, and I for one do).

I guess that's it for now.. Time to roll up the sleeves and get out of the lazy zone.