I am back to running Slackware64 14.1after mostly running Debian Wheezy for several months.
I liked the number of packages available in Debian but if stayed with Stable it seemed like they were getting stale. Also there was an intermittent problem with my sound that I never did track down.

I tried Gentoo over the weekend, but it seemed like it was going to be too much work to get what I wanted running.

I did the mutilib thing on Slackware 14.1 but I had to start over cause nouveau locked me up
I finally finished the mutilib but I noticed a few thing that didn't install if I remember correctly. Hopefully nothing major and I plan on upgrading to current soon.
I do wish it was easier to install the 32 libraries. I thing the number of people that don't want them would be small.

I have the nvidia driver for my video installed.
I plan on staying with Slackware for a while.

Welcome home. Once you Slack, you always come back.

Welcome back

Installing multilib is like a 3 step proccess but anyways welcome back

Welcome back! I bet it feels good to be back Home, where you can do as you please.

Re: Multilibs - with hardware gone serial, cpus gone multicore, it seems to me 64bit has taken a back seat in software considering AMD forced Intel's hand almost 15 years ago. I have 3 64bit multilib distros (of course Slackware is the best) installed on boxes to keep up but my serious system is still 32 bit Slackware and will remain so until enough software goes 64 bit to make the advantage worth the extra work. In this case I am most definitely not referring to initial install. Alien Bob did an exemplary job on that. I am referring to extra considerations and steps implementing after the fact. It's not huge, but until I feel compelled to do so, 32 bit is just still more universal for me.

hm. what you find in another distros, why you leave a slackware?

The OP mentioned that he ran Debian. I run Debian from time to time. Debian is a mature, full-featured distro. Debian is very nice indeed. I prefer Slackware(and OpenBSD on my other partition).

i understand, he ran debian. my question is about for what reason he switches from slackware to debian?
i personally in early times using slackware generally for "servers", and for desktop i use mandrake, because after installing in mandriva is almost all "out of the box" - openoffice, codecs, and so on. but then mandrake become to mandriva, and start to be more and more buggy, as so about in time of 2007 or so on i switching to slackware on desktops also....

I want to go away from slackware but I cannot. No matter what I use on my computer there us a little voice inside me that says 'Slackware.. Slackware'.

Indeed, but Debian will switch to Systemd. After that its just a Fedora with an inferior package manager. But that can be fixed by merging RPM into Systemd...

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And then Debian is just Red Hat/Fedora renamed... That's actually disturbing...

Good job! Best of luck to you with your new install!

I distro hopped until I found slackware... after that I've stuck with it... The reason why is YOU FELLOW SLACKERS ROCK! This community has educated me, firstly from the well written documentation that works; and secondly from searching this forum--I almost always find an answer and seldom have to post a new topic... It looks like the OP learned his lesson and returned to the best distro ever... Rock On Slackware!

I switched from Slackware to Debian because I was unable to install a new version of Slackware on my old laptop--it refused to load the second CD (it was a long time ago and I found out later that that was because the CD drive was failing). The Debian web install got the machine up and running and I came to quite like Debian. (Six months later, though, the computer died for good.)

Currently, I run Slackware on two laptops and Debian on my file server. Debian is my second-favorite distro; it does what it does really well.

If they go to System D, though, I may have to rethink that.

QFT. Looks like "Linux Unification" is to be taken literally, eh?