• John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Do people really be using Slackware these days? I’m on Bazzite atm and it’s cool but a bit different esp with the ostree stuff.

    Curious what the use case is for Slackware nowadays

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      7 hours ago

      Slack is great when you need to make something completely out of the ordinary. It’s right there just one step removed from a system from scratch without GNU.

      That said, embedded computers nowadays run full Debian. So I dunno what use it still has.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
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      8 hours ago

      A few thousand people in the world, yes.

      It combines the stability of Debian with the simplicity of Arch, and turns both up to 11.
      Main selling point is that it never does anything unexpected.
      You set it up and then it works the way you’re used to, literally for decades.

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      8 hours ago

      Feeling superior to Gentoo and Arch users.

      I see the main use case for Slackware, if you’re a Linux graybeard, who has used it for 20 years.