Only you can know.

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That depends on your use case. If Ubuntu and Windows works well for you then keep that if they satisfy your computing needs. If you're curious about Slackware you could always try Eric's Live DVD or install Slackware in a virtual machine. I've used Slackware for 18 years , since 2004.

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I run a root f2fs on my Pinebook pro and my ZaReason strata. The pine book has a Kingston nvme disk and the x86 has a Samsung Evo ssd. So on arm64 and x86_64 I've found f2fs to be stable enough. Also my other SBC's use f2fs if I am running off of a SD/eMMC or SSD. My Pine64 Rockpro64 has a 2TB spinner as my data drive with ext4 and a root disk on a 120GB Kingston SSD with f2fs. I haven't noticed any file corruption or failing disks for the last few months.

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Forgot to add that I will be staying on Slackware-current on all my machines.

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Old laptop is going to 15, main PC staying Current. I have a drive that is going bad that I was planning on putting 15 on too.

yea, only I can know if I want to try slackware 15.
So, that remains the question for me to do it?

For example, do you think I can hear audio on hdml on
the new version. I could not figure it out on 14.2,
along with about a thousand other users. This seemed to
be an on going problem. When I installed ubuntu the
problem went away.

Did you configure pavucontrol? HDMI shows up for my NVIDIA card.
Also there is a place to enable it in kmix->Settings-Audio Setup.

Mine was working but I disabled it awhile back.

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I for sure can hear 3 different audio streams with current : hdmi, Bluetooth and built-in speakers

On my laptop will have 15 installed alongside current to have one cleaned up install, as on the family computers I maintain.
For arm servers 15 too.

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Bit off topic but fwiw HDMI audio is broken here. It plays but 1) i have to toggle the monitor's mute to make it audible using a clumsy settings menu, and 2) it plays back at the wrong speed - way too slow. But it's even worse on ubuntu (i tried lubuntu) - it's all that plus it cuts out constantly, roughly every second. I'm just using alsa directly here but lubuntu uses pa. I just put it down to the hd7970 driver or the monitor and I just use analogue for the rare occasion I want to watch a video on this machine.

On the topic i'm not sure. Running current has been mostly pain free apart from firefox constantly changing for no good reason. I've got an old laptop I might move from 14.2 to 15.0, a server on current I might flip to 15.0, and a desktop i might keep on current but I suppose it depends on what new junk that shows up from redhat/gome/kde that can't be avoided. I don't want to do a fresh install on anything as it takes so long to fix all the default settings to my liking.

Stay with current except for the kernel.

Install 15.0 on all my laptops, desktops and servers (9 machines), and then keep them up-to date with patches until the next version. Apart from two, the other ones are all still on patched 14.2. Closer to the next release, I will move one of the laptops to -current again.

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As Didier Spaier said, only yourself can answer that. But, let me ramble a little...

Each OS has its features: stability, cost, market size, proprietary software availability, simplicity, user control, gaming resources, hardware compatibility, reputation, desing, etc.

In a very naive evaluation, for example, MacOS systems have excelent hardware compatiblity (the machine is presetted), great desing and you have some good proprietary softwares available... but cost is high and you don't have control over your system. Windows is the biggest market (which means hardware, software and game availability), but the OS is heavy, slow and definitly not simple, with little control. Linux offers a lighter option, with a lot of control, low cost (please, donate!), and so on, but you can find some hardware or specific software limitations. Only you know what features are important to you. That is what you should evaluate.

I chose Slackware because of its reputation 13 years ago. I wanted to learn! Now, I wouldn't abandon its simplicity, stability and the control over the system that it offers me, despite some limitations or difficulties that I may face at any moment. To me, these are "problems to solve", "more things to learn".

Life offers you opportunities: you make choices and accept consequences. There's no wrong answer!

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Works just fine!

One caveat is, lilo cannot boot a f2fs partition. So, I have a small (200 meg) /boot partition formatted with ext4 and the rest of the SSD, the / and /home partitions, are f2fs.

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HDMI/Display Port audio has been working fine here with both my nVidia and Intel integrated graphics. I'm currently using a bluetooth speaker (JBL Flip 4) which is also working fine. Maybe just lucky with hardware, but the KDE audio tab in System Settings seems to recognize all and allows choice of output.

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I have one workstation and one server (Apache/NextCloud) running 64-current. I will switch them to 15.0. But all the others will remain on 14.2 until 15.1 comes out. The 15.0 workstation will then get Docker installed so I can play with a few other options.

I will prepare Slint 15, based on Slackware 15. It could could take up to one month, with 1123 packages to take care of, plus enhancements of the installer and update of the documentation and the translations.

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