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Re:Slackware 15.0 by deelowe on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:58PM (#30201393)
Slackware is a no frills distro and arguably the baseline for all linux distros. It’s appealing because of the lack of magic or distro specific customizations. If you want a distro that just lets you do what you need to do without getting in the way, it’s very appealing. If you want a distro that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot, look elsewhere.
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Re:Slackware 15.0 by pietromenna on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:33PM (#30201668)
A bonus point is that Slackware does not rely on systemd. it is still a bunch of bash scripts that you can figure out what is going on.
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Re:Slackware 15.0 by jonstewart on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:10AM (#30203125)
^This!^

Slackware uses a BSD-style init system, where you just have one big shell script for booting the system -- you can read through it and edit it, it's all right there, self-contained.

Additionally, all of the old Unix tomes still largely apply to Slackware. That's increasingly, and distressingly, not true of most other distros.

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Re:Slackware 15.0 by nomel on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:06PM (#30201466)
> that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot, look elsewhere.

I remember having to re-run the installation many times, from selecting the wrong options during installation.

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Re:Slackware 15.0 by throwaway984393 on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:43AM (#30206665)
There's the best reason to use Slack: it builds character.
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