I changed the OS on my laptop from Debian Sid/Experimental to Slackware x86_64 -current the day before yesterday, and after Allend helped me with an annoying issue I tested it for a day now. I know, short time, but I was overwhelmed.

Some weeks ago I was very skeptical about package management in Slackware, tested it in short and thought "That will never be mine." After thinking about it now, I don't know why.

But now I gave it a second try on my laptop, and I really was amazed: Every thing worked out of the box, even to suspend and wake up the system (this worked not in Sid for more than half a year) is working, and amazingly fast. It is fun to see my laptop, that suspended after not being used for a time, waking up in less than two seconds with a working 3D screensaver.

And now, thanks to the really great work of AlienBob and the SlackBuilds, I have the system up and running with superior speed in the way I want it to be. And I think that slackpkg is a really good package manager, that delivers the same functionality as the mix of apt-get, apt-cache and apt-file on Debian, of course without resolving dependencies.

I will have to research some more things (boot from RAID, Virtualbox, Wine and some minor stuff) before replacing Debian and Arch on my main system, but I think that can and will be done. I wonder for myself how it could be that Debian has hidden so much things with making it automatically (how the heck do I generate an initrd with the appropriate stuff to boot from a software RAID?), and I never noticed.

That said, Slackware for the win, and I want to say thanks to Mr. Volkerding, AlienBob and the other Slackware developers/supporters, the supporters of SlackBuild and the people on this forum for this amazing distribution.
Great work.

P.S.: I don't want to flame against Debian, I still think that it also is a great system, I will recommend it for stable and easy to maintain systems, and I will use it on my fileserver, as I have done before. I am just amazed about Slackware and why I didn't see its greatness before.

I realised that Slackware seems to have this "problem", due the lack of, for example, a fancy installer, lack of unneeded bling bling such as branding and so on. For some people it's just a "boring" distribution. The real greatness is seen after using it for a certain time, trying out several things and being amazed that it simply works (ok quite boring indeed )

Gruss nach DE

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I am used to the Debian installer, I don't find the Slackware worse, in fact, if you know what you do (and I have to learn a lot about dependencies) it is even more configurable. And doesn't the "bling bling" come with KDE (I am using XFCE, no need for bling bling).
I think it can be boring, just because, as you said, it works. But I think most people on LQ are not satisfied with "It just works.", so not boring for me. I find it more boring to type apt-get install virtualbox instead of finding out how to get it working.

In diesem Sinne, Grüße in die Schweiz.
In this sense, greetings to Switzerland.

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@TobiSDG
Can you refer me to the post that assisted you.

Here is a link to the thread.

Congratulations, TobiSD. I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying Slackware.

S o o o o o o o boring, in fact, that I find myself using my ***slack*** time in some other way rather than working on the computer that I built for myself to *use* and the computer that I built for my friend to *use*.

After the initial build and the initial setup it then becomes and thereafter continues onward that I put Slackware on there not for me to work on it. But for them to use the computer. And use. And use.

I'm getting awfully bored as this Slackware 12.2 that I write this with right now has only done nothing but run perfectly ever since I installed it on here when Slackware 12.2 was first released. And I haven't babied it. I've used it and used it and used it and I still keep on using it.

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Alan.

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I tried Slackware not so long ago. It really left an impression on me for some reason, I'm not sure why, I just liked it. I put Debian back on my desktop because I was used to it but have been wanting to install Slackware again. I really don't feel like back up all my data, installing a new OS, and setting it up again right now though. I might put Slackware on my laptop since it doesn't have much on it, though I'm afraid to do so as I hear that wifi cards can be a pain sometimes. I even had trouble getting wifi working with Ubuntu, I don't remember what I did to get it working, probably installed some proprietary driver.

Great to hear, TobiSD! Welcome to Slackware. Once you Slack, you never go back.

Slackware rocks.

Welcome to the world of Slack.

I'm not using it right now (long story), but it is my once and future distro.

In fact, I just figured out how to get Debian to boot to the command line because it's more slacky that way.

Yeah, I think so. Thanks for the links in your sig, just bookmarked some of them.

You are welcome, TobiSGD.

When I first started using Linux, around early 2000s, I had better luck with Slackware & Debian. Glad you enjoying Slack.

Welcome to slack!

Ding! We should have a bell for this kind of thing.

Personally, I found Slackware easier to install than Debian. It's a simpler installer, and it works better, usually.

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