Re:Ask HN: Which linux distro at home?
by bandrami on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:49AM
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I'm a pretty committed Slackware user so I just wanted to throw that out there. If "bloat" is your concern (though that means different things to different people) it's a great distro.
No brittle, fragile mess of unit files symlinked to a billion places and interacting God knows how. No PAM nonsense (the last thing I want my authentication system to be is "flexible"). Maintainers who do almost no patching. A huge collection of Slackbuilds for stuff you want that isn't in the base system. And a very long release schedule. I realize for a lot of people all of those are reasons not to use Slackware, but if that's what you want (and there's still plenty of us who do) there's nothing that beats it short of rolling your own.
No brittle, fragile mess of unit files symlinked to a billion places and interacting God knows how. No PAM nonsense (the last thing I want my authentication system to be is "flexible"). Maintainers who do almost no patching. A huge collection of Slackbuilds for stuff you want that isn't in the base system. And a very long release schedule. I realize for a lot of people all of those are reasons not to use Slackware, but if that's what you want (and there's still plenty of us who do) there's nothing that beats it short of rolling your own.