Slackware is the LQ Desktop Distribution of the Year !

kjhambrick · 02-13-2017, 03:50 PM

All --

I've not seen this posted on LQ yet ... maybe I missed it ?

A little publicity on SlashDot: LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware

Woo Hoo !

-- kjh

hitest · 02-13-2017, 04:16 PM

Awesome!! Great news!!

bassmadrigal · 02-13-2017, 04:36 PM

I was a little bummed when I saw the announcement that the polls were closed and I never noticed they had opened. So, unfortunately, I wasn't able to participate in voting this year.

But that's awesome Slackware came out on top!

Skaendo · 02-13-2017, 05:16 PM

LMAO, I was just looking through the results and noticed that Calligra got one vote.

Maybe time for a change in the Slackware lineup?

GazL · 02-13-2017, 05:34 PM

I see the zdnet article linked from that slashdot story is up to their usual standards! "Vote Stuffing"?

RadicalDreamer · 02-13-2017, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Skaendo

LMAO, I was just looking through the results and noticed that Calligra got one vote.

Maybe time for a change in the Slackware lineup?

I've never given Calligra a fair chance because I need Windows compatibility and I was trained with Microsoft Office and LibreOffice is pretty much an open source version of it. For all I know Calligra might be better at some things!

Skaendo · 02-13-2017, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by RadicalDreamer

I've never given Calligra a fair chance because I need Windows compatibility and I was trained with Microsoft Office and LibreOffice is pretty much an open source version of it. For all I know Calligra might be better at some things!

Agreed. There are a few things that Calligra can do that LibreOffice cannot. My first reason for using LibreOffice was also for compatibility across OS's, but now I have no real use for Windows (aside from my HTPC) so I am going to give Calligra a fair shot on my test rig. Thanks for the wake up slap there.

Edit: It might me a trick though. I don't use KDE anymore either so I might have to wade through a sea of dependencies. Eh, I'm always up for a challenge.

hitest · 02-13-2017, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Skaendo

Agreed. There are a few things that Calligra can do that LibreOffice cannot.

Now I am curious. Such as? I've tried Calligra and still prefer Libreoffice. Maybe I'm missing something.

RadicalDreamer · 02-13-2017, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by hitest

Now I am curious. Such as? I've tried Calligra and still prefer Libreoffice. Maybe I'm missing something.

Flow and Plan look like they are geared towards engineers. Its got circuitry symbols and a Gantt chart.

Skaendo · 02-13-2017, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by hitest

Now I am curious. Such as? I've tried Calligra and still prefer Libreoffice. Maybe I'm missing something.

An OLD comment: https://www.calligra.org/tour/callig...#comment-14231

I don't know if that is still applicable or not, I don't use many advanced features. But seems like something useful.

EDIT: LOL, I tried Calligra, full clean Slackware64-14.2, and it segfaulted when I tried to open a .ods (calc spreadsheet) that was created by LibreOffice.

BrianW · 02-13-2017, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

I see the zdnet article linked from that slashdot story is up to their usual standards! "Vote Stuffing"?

Slackware is going to have a larger percentage in the votes on this forum due to this being the only official support forum. If there were a dedicated forum on Slackware's website, the results in the polls here would be different. But I digress, who doesn't like stuffing the ballot boxes? :-)

chris.willing · 02-13-2017, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

I see the zdnet article linked from that slashdot story is up to their usual standards! "Vote Stuffing"?

Maybe it's a compliment of sorts - that we have greater technical proficiency than users of other distros to do the required amount of vote stuffing.

chris