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Nothing will be better than NT4... ...who doesn't like rebooting when re-IP'ing an interface?! Or maybe 2000... ...because the dropshadow cursor rocked! (An
by p_ing 2y ago
Nothing will be better than NT4...
...who doesn't like rebooting when re-IP'ing an interface?!
Or maybe 2000...
...because the dropshadow cursor rocked!
(And Slackware on the Linux side)
There will never be a 'best' OS. They're all constantly improving in one way or another. Whether you appreciate the improvement or not, that's subjective.
- kennysoona 2y agoSlackware was great, but I think Alpine is an improvement in every way. Just speaking as a former loyal Slackware user of 7 years or so.
- LeFantome 2y agoInteresting that you see Alpine as the next step after Slackware.
- kennysoona 2y agoI couldn't defend it as such in a general sense, but the reason I always liked Slackware was minimalism. It never had that as an explicit goal, but it was for a long time a distro great for people who wanted minimal systems, without any 'wizards' to get in the way. It kind of lost it's way trying to comepte with things like Ubuntu though. Alpine is so much better from a minimalist point of view (a functional minimal desktop install is only 700mb, while on Void, Devuan and Gentoo it's about double that), and that it has security as a priority at the forefront is icing on the cake.
- p_ing 2y agoI like Slack from a purity of Linux perspective, or at least 'early days of Linux' perspective. Alpine is busybox, so that goes right out :-(
- kennysoona 2y agoAlpine is only busybox until you apk add coreutils
- LeFantome 2y agoWindows 2000 is still the best Windows in my head. Sadly, it is 32 bit and missing a tonne of APIs. So, not really viable for modern apps. If Win2K would run modern software, it would be the Windows I use in a VM.