I used slackware decades ago. Didn’t know it was still around. Why would I use slackware over something like arch?

  • EugeneNine@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    No systemd for one thing. Arch is a rolling release but Slackware only updates things when necessary.

    • slacktoid@lemmy.mlM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      If you are adventurous, you can run slackware-current. It is “not” recommended, but is also pretty stable if you want a bleeding edge Slackware experience.

      • EugeneNine@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yes, current is closely the equivalent of a rolling distro. Its still more stable than other OS’s which start with a W

  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s still around. Stable is 15.0 and still maintained by Patt!

    Why would I use slackware over something like arch?

    Traditional Unix like approach, stability, nice community. But, it would depend on what you want and look for in an OS. Arch is good too.

  • lolzacksnyderfans@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    It always will be so long as Pat maintains it, I stopped using it years ago though. It lost its way trying to compete with Desktop OSes, and pretty much Arch replaced that niche, now we have Artix, Void and Alpine.

    • Hatch@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I do like the approach of 64 bit packages only. Serperating my other programs to conty for say my gamings, to keep my system clean. I did not try creating a vm, as there is a documentation to create kvm/ qemu virt manager , so that will be something i look forward to try so i can just gpu passthrough with slackware as the host.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlM
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        This, with the prevalence of containers, slackware has the edge as a stable host system. Even slackware + nixpkg is pretty interesting.

        • mkonji@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s how I’ve been managing the last little bit after going back to Slackware. Good stable combination.

        • Hatch@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Nixpkg something i haven’t tried. I’ll check that out thanks.

  • Hatch@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I also uses it from time to time and personally, i find slackware it be more forgiving for user mistakes.

  • superkret@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Why would I use slackware over something like arch?

    If you want something like Arch, but stable.