If OP cares about Slackware future I think should start to support mr. Volkerding via his Patron account. I hope OP already made this decision. If OP cares so much.

I like Cinnamon on my toast.

Well I was wrong. I didn't know that answer.

Isn't KDE/PLasma 5 enough?

Answer nope.

the OP obviously doesn't care about Slackware
Tipacally, the BDFL doesn't care about non-constructive opinions

What's the point ?

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Don't you see that you are killing Slackware with this biger than GNOME giant and ugly garbage?

Killing Slackware? By what standard? Just this last month there have been several new Slackers even from Ubuntu posting here in LQN (tip of an iceberg?) and hundreds of new posts regarding the validity of Current and the imminent release of v15.

I see "imminent" as possibly involving months and that is fine with me because waiting for Slackware is worth the wait. 14.2 still works very well especially with a newer kernel or at least kernel-firmware.

ping ialexand, I suggest you try installing Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak today alongside Slackware 14.2 (released within 2 months of each other) and see which is more useful in 2021. The point is that you see KDE, or rather release time that you conflate into being because of KDE, as being not only detrimental but killing Slackware, when what you apparently really mean is you want it faster. Most of us do not.

We are not sufficiently concerned about release times to complain about the most popular DE there is because, beiongh vanilla and stable, it is easy to keep releases current and relevant not to mention efficient and effective AND there is always ~Current for edge use cases.

I don't care how long you claim to have been using Slackware, you don't get it and this thread is a tempest in a teapot at best.

OH BTW My Plasma 5 commonly stuns even glitzy Win10 users as well as many Linux users,... so "ugly"? I disagree. Maybe you've never bothered to discover how to customize KDE. Xfce is OK as a worthy 2nd, but it doesn't suit my needs as it is and would be unusable without it's KDE support. That's the final nail in the coffin that houses your "logic". Many use cases require Recommended Full Install libraries to keep manual dependency resolution relatively painless... but then perhaps you prefer automated dependency resolution and systemd.

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There's always room for more. I wish PV would add the following to core Slackware: CDE for when I work Monday to Friday, and then Enlightenment for the weekends.

I don't know for CDE
but :

https://slackbuilds.org/result/?sear...enment&sv=14.2

Very very funny!

Now with all due respect I'd like to pour some yellow liquid onto this discussion...is it possible that Darth Vader, ialexand, and gerogerigegege are related? Just a thought...

I don't believe that. If this would be true then, well, kind of dementia has happened to Darth Vader. To forget almost everything Darth Vader knew.

Thanks for letting me know! I really didn't realize it had been added to slackbuilds, and it is quite up to date as well.
Great something to do this weekend

Just what I need... another truly compelling project. Yup Magic 8-Ball says "I see an old friend in your future".

By what methodology did you determine this? I don't really care one way or another, but since I "can easily check that," how?

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Yes! You make a correct assessment because I was using Ubuntu 19.04 for years. After trying Slackware 14.2, apart from sound and wifi which is my problem not Slackware, I agree with you.

Also important point, Ubuntu for me is the best distro that has supported Linux for common person. Without Ubuntu Linux would not be such a common word today. Many many people use Ubuntu and are very happy. Schools benefit from Ubuntu...poor students too!

Soon Slackware will be my #1 choice but I always take hat off to Ubuntu for making a 'best of both worlds' distro for anyone to use.

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You are overemphasizing. Don't think at all any Linux is for "common users". At least not in my country. No matter what distribution. It is just part of Ubuntu image created by Ubuntu developers. I run Ubuntu till update broke it. I decided not to try to fix it but just through it into garbage. Debian also landed in garbage because of its packages. I don't think your Ubuntu user experience will be benefit in running Slackware. Just your thread is a prove of this. Ubuntu and Slackware habitats are different. For Ubuntu Slackware is just blasphemy.

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