who use slackware 14.2 for desktop ?

@fido_dogstoyevsky Yeah mate I think we're all excited for the arrival of the new stable overlord.

Still using 14.2 on my main machine: desktop. Was running -current on my 2 laptops, but have let them lapse - a bit overwhelmed by the constant flood of updates.
Will install 15 on everything when it arrives. Patience...I'm quite good at it nowadays, must be old age.

Originally Posted by knet Are we going to upgrade to 15 when it is released? I mean it will be the new stable. What are your opinions on this?

As my use cases are really quite straight forward and my hardware is not the newest (no driver issues) I shall keep 14.2 64bit on this machine for now. I have a test laptop with current on which will then transition to 15.0 stable, keeping KDE as the DE (I use xfce4 on 14.2).

After some time (months?) I'll put 15.0 on this laptop on a separate partition (the 2T spinning rust drive has a couple of 100Gb partitions and a large data partition) and see how it goes.

Nah... for me, upgrading to 15 right away is not a priority. This is mostly because I installed Current a couple weeks ago, and had some issues. I also very much did NOT like some of the changes in Xfce and Mozilla Thunderbird. I reverted to 14.2 and will continue to use it as long as its still being supported (security updates).

brianL said, "Patience...I'm quite good at it nowadays, must be old age."

Heh! It's just the opposite for me. I have no patience with shit nowadays. I just want it to work.

Will install 15 on everything when it arrives. Patience...I'm quite good at it nowadays, must be old age.

Oh please, grow up. This is the age of entitlement.

Originally Posted by knet Are we going to upgrade to 15 when it is released? I mean it will be the new stable. What are your opinions on this?

If you're asking if we're able to update from 14.2 to 15.0, the answer should be yes. Every Slackware version that I can remember includes an UPGRADE.TXT documenting the steps to take to upgrade from the previous version to that stable version. The one in -current isn't fully up-to-date (last change was in February before PAM, elogind, xfce 4.16, and Plasma5 made it into the main tree), but I imagine it will be finalized before 15.0 is released.

Originally Posted by vtel57 Nowadays, I'm perfectly happy with Slackware 14.2, generic kernel, and Xfce. On this most recent install, I even skipped installing Nvidia drivers and went with Nouveau. It all just works fine and dandy.

Same here.
Another idea for when Slackware v15 becomes the new stable is to install v15 as a dual-boot option in LILO on top of v14.2.
The SlackDocs slackbook:booting webpage is a good place to start on the mkinitrd, LILO, and Dual Booting steps for this.
That way, we can keep v14.2's generic kernel, desktop and various essential working drivers as a perfectly "fine and dandy" fallback plus reap possible upcoming benefits of v15 with its 5.x Linux kernel release

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Originally Posted by nycace36 Another idea for when Slackware v15 becomes the new stable is to install v15 as a dual-boot option in LILO on top of v14.2.--

That's more or less what I'm doing. My working Slackware is 14.2 but I have a partial install of -current alongside it. I shall easily be able to upgrade this to Slackware-15 when it is released, and then flesh it out.

I always do a clean install with every new release, no upgrading, out with the old and in with the new.

Originally Posted by brianL I always do a clean install with every new release, no upgrading, out with the old and in with the new.

Yeah, well, I'm eccentric!

Originally Posted by hazel Yeah, well, I'm eccentric!

No, I might be wrong but I think more people do upgrades than clean installs. I bet I'm more eccentric than you!

Originally Posted by brianL I always do a clean install with every new release, no upgrading, out with the old and in with the new.

Same for me, usually. One exception, though was when I upgraded from 14.1 to 14.2. Also, I do NOT format my /home partitions during clean installs. This keeps my personal data and configurations intact. If there are major interface changes like the newer Xfce in 15, I will have to tweak configs quite a bit.

Of course, after a clean install (or upgrade), I have to re-install my Sbo packages and other odds and ends (Alien Bob or R. Workman Sbo apps, fonts, etc).

Originally Posted by brianL No, I might be wrong but I think more people do upgrades than clean installs. I bet I'm more eccentric than you!

I'm not a gambler anymore but here my ticket:

This Slackware will reach maturity way sooner than any release before: i will switch to it sooner than 3 months after release:

Last time i waited half a year...

I do multiboot (so clean install in parallel) but just link the /home partition over, i have data since 2003 there.

Who is the most eccentric now?

Also since major RAM upgrade due to blender sculpting demands, i run swapless since (24 G and planning for more).