leopard: Hormonal, perhaps.
Adolescent, not for a very long time.
The elite? Must be using one of those new MM clinics...

I guess we've settled on Slackware being the Worst Distro Ever though.

Your word is our command, Sasha.

My nomination for the worst distro is Shoestring, which I ran on the Motorola 68LC060-based Q60. There was something seriously wrong with the X-window implementation (now fixed, I believe): once you entered startx, everything went into wounded-snail mode. I can still remember that xpdf took nearly one minute to display each page.

Yeah - I'm just too stupid to learn new tricks, which is
why I'm stuck with slack, making the same mistake every
time it comes to installing a new OS on a machine ...


Cheers,
Tink "Never run a changing system" Slacker

What distro does carbonfiber use?

I can't nominate a distro, until I know what the purpose of it is, namely server, desktop, enterprise, etc.

However, I can nominate a distro, regardless of category. It's called M$ Windows.

P, booze? :}

You're the second person to call Windows a distro. As far as I know, that word applies only in the Linux world. It's like saying the worst DC Comics character is Spider-Man.

That signature reminds me of my recent lament that KDE 3.5 didn't need to be replaced by KDE 4. I generally don't want my system to change, either.

Lunar Linux

I use the worst one! Do I get a prize?

I think, according to Carbonfiber's fork of the Linnaean system, I am in the second species.

Mmm, looks interesting - sort of Archy/Gentooy type-thingy. I'll put it on my list of distros-to-try if I get bitten by the distrohopping bug again.

I will give Lunar a go if I am ever seized by that affliction.

There is a whole sub-culture of which Doze people are completely unaware. They just get spoonfed the latest thing and then whinge about it crashing.

I don't get it.

From my time on LQ, rather than eliteness seeking adolescents, I get the feeling Slackers tend more towards the 'old codgers' variety ( Apologises profusely to Sasha. Nods knowingly towards brianL )

Perhaps we're just old dogs, struggling to come to terms with the new tricks the more recent distros get up to, but the so called 'drawbacks' of running Slackware really aren't much of a consideration for those whom remember when the only help you got from your computer was a friendly,
or even

Not quite an "old codger", I regard sixty-four-and-three-quarters as late middle age. When I'm about 80, then I'll start being an old codger (still with the mind of an hormonal adolescent).

Correction: sixty-four-and-two-thirds. Arithmetic: 1/10

For one their installer no longer asks for network information and assumes DHCP. Lack of hardware detection. Debian used to be one of the best at hardware detections and providing working drivers from a fresh install, that is no longer the case even with much older hardware (2-5 years old. plenty old enough to be in the driver base but not so old as to be depreciated) those are just a few things that have gone backwards in Debian over the past few years.unstable is not for use, it is for testing. you do not bring UNSTABLE platforms to a daily use workstation. The FF fork that debian uses in stable is 3.0, not 3.5 and is slower, less secure, and a large amount of the ad-ons that protect FF from malicious software does not work with it. This is a major issue with security. Yes it is Linux, but hey even Linux can be susceptible to malicious software via a web browser. Running an old out of date browser that no longer supports applications that can protect the browser, user, computer is a mistake IMHO.
Yup just a few months back. see notes above. it is slow, less secure, does not run ad-ons (specific adblock+ & noscript)