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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by Koshkin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:28AM (#15247754)
> the simplest possible

I find Slackware easier to install. (IMHO, it's the sanest distribution of all. I have used many of them but kept coming back to Slackware.)

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by nextos on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:47AM (#15247927)
Why do you prefer Slackware to Arch?
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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by Koshkin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:44AM (#15248514)
1) Absolute stability (in my experience).

2) No dependency hell (you do not install what you will never use; one could use pkgsrc, if desired).

3) Does not use the rolling release paradigm (with the need to stay up to date, more or less, in order to avoid breaking the system).

4) More minimalist, saner feel. (It has to be more minimalist, as the maintenance team is small.)

5) No systemd (so far; not that I care much, but still feels nice).

6) Good community support.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by ernst_klim on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:10AM (#15255490)
>Koshkin

>Slackware is the sanest distribution of all

Are you a russian physicist?

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