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I have moved my Linux Desktop to Fedora (Recommended by my 26yo son). Been in the Linux space since the beginning so have seen distros come and go. Who remember

I have moved my Linux Desktop to Fedora (Recommended by my 26yo son). Been in the Linux space since the beginning so have seen distros come and go. Who remembers Slackware? What a journey Linux has been. Hope the framepointers work out (I think they will squeeze out some more performance) Thanks to all the amazing people who developed the Linux miracle.

ilyt 4y ago
>Who remembers Slackware? I still have nightmares about it. What a terribly put together thing. Moving to Debian was such a breath of fresh air, packages that works!
- peter_retief 4y ago
  Kind of why no one uses it anymore I guess.
- prmoustache 4y ago
  What didn't work or wasn't well put together on slackware? The only thing that was annoying at the time was having to manually download and compile third party software as well as some of its depencency. In reality it wasn't that much of a big deal. You just had to know how to read a readme and install text file really. But this is kind of a moot point in 2023 with: 1. slackbuilds and its clients, which is pretty much like the AUR for archlinux users or pkgsrc and makes you a lot of additionnal software available very easily. 2. All the software nowadays made installable with flatpak, appimage or via some bash script. 3. podman and docker If anything modern software deployment methods made slackware experience closer to rpm or deb based distros than 20 years ago.
- dmpk2k 4y ago
  I had the exact opposite experience. Debian always had to add their own variations and special sauce to the configurations and layout. Slackware was as stock as you could get, effectively identical to what you'd get with a configure; make; make install. I much preferred stock.
gavinray 4y ago
I also moved from a decade of Ubuntu to Fedora over a year ago Was a fantastic decision, I think the project is run much better and the pace of development and innovation for software devs specifically is much better.
- getoverit 4y ago
  I built my own distro from scratch, and it blows all of that mainstream garbage right out of the water, in every possible way.

ilyt 4y ago

>Who remembers Slackware? I still have nightmares about it. What a terribly put together thing. Moving to Debian was such a breath of fresh air, packages that works!

peter_retief 4y ago
Kind of why no one uses it anymore I guess.
prmoustache 4y ago
What didn't work or wasn't well put together on slackware? The only thing that was annoying at the time was having to manually download and compile third party software as well as some of its depencency. In reality it wasn't that much of a big deal. You just had to know how to read a readme and install text file really. But this is kind of a moot point in 2023 with: 1. slackbuilds and its clients, which is pretty much like the AUR for archlinux users or pkgsrc and makes you a lot of additionnal software available very easily. 2. All the software nowadays made installable with flatpak, appimage or via some bash script. 3. podman and docker If anything modern software deployment methods made slackware experience closer to rpm or deb based distros than 20 years ago.
dmpk2k 4y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. Debian always had to add their own variations and special sauce to the configurations and layout. Slackware was as stock as you could get, effectively identical to what you'd get with a configure; make; make install. I much preferred stock.

gavinray 4y ago

I also moved from a decade of Ubuntu to Fedora over a year ago Was a fantastic decision, I think the project is run much better and the pace of development and innovation for software devs specifically is much better.

getoverit 4y ago
I built my own distro from scratch, and it blows all of that mainstream garbage right out of the water, in every possible way.