Slackware

i'd never use slackware in a server role, it comes with too much shit

Just use Debian.

yeah debian is kinda the obvious choice but alternatives are a nice thing to have

then uninstall everything you don't need, or not install it when you're doing the installation

Slavkware is cool, have it on my thinkpad.
Its an intuitive distro that comes with a lot of drivers but im still learning the whole slackbuilds thing
I havent had a single problem with slackware.
Many debian distros will have little bugs ive noticed and even some ubuntu distros which is why i prefer slackware over them.
Arch and gentoo are obvious good choices for ricing and having a totally custom install that does exactly what u want it to do.
Then theres custom kernels, linux from scratch, or you can be terry davis who just writes everything from scratch

>and even some ubuntu distros
To be honest, 90% of my Ubuntu problems come from GNOME. It makes me want to upgrade from their LTS version to the testing one just to see if it'll fix shit. Somehow, I doubt that it will, but nobody that I know has ran both versions of Ubuntu so they can't tell me if there's ANY difference.

heeey you are the guy from /fglt/
try changing your repo to resting, it doesn't take that long

>To be honest, 90% of my Ubuntu problems come from GNOME
Have you tried not using Gnome? I don't know if Ubuntu still shits itself when you try to install non-default DEs like it did when I tried to install xfce no a non-Xubuntu 14.04 way back when, but it's worth a try.

This thread reminds me of how much a clusterfuck the linux userspace actually is.

I wouldn't want to take the risk. If I had enough time to fix the problems that taking such risks could cause, I'd probably just switch to something like Debian.

I begin to get the feeling that slackware users are all ... older, like their fifties.

dont install it faggot. install arch. i downloaded this meme distro and all i can say is have fun manually resolving dependencies. its such a pain in the ass i had to have a separate journal where i write down package names in the order that i have to download them. also with sbopkg do not queue to many items or it will overwrite your pulseaudio folder and you wont have sound.

>don't install this meme of a distro
>install the meme distro i use and larp as a elitist systemadmin

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fine faggot install debian or devuan if you really hate systemdicks that much. slackware really takes up a lot of time.

How much of a PITA is the manual dependency tracking in actual usage? I looked into slackware for a minimal SystemD-less distro, but I got the impression that if you install any more or less than what was curated, managing dependencies is hell. Is that the case? (I want a command line + dhcpcd + wpa_supplicant + X + Xmonad basically, but I don't know what happens if I want to also install a browser)

mozilla is the only browser that is easily installable. i cant watch netflix on it but i want to figue out exactly why that is. vlc has a lot of dependencies. if you have the time, it isnt too bad and once you set it up, you dont need to mess with it

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oh yea and another thing, you cannot save files from your web browser to any folder other than downloads without messing with some permissions, im not sure which one

How is that not a hassle? Does not sound appealing at all.

Slackware is a great distro and I like it a lot but I recently switched just to using Ubuntu since some shit on Slackware can be a hassle. It’s definitely one of the best distros

because im not an impatient zoomer with the attention span of a fruitfly. also i dont feel the need to rush and get my rice done so i could post it on r/unixporn. the benefits outweigh the drawbacks by a large margin for me.

there's a slackbuild that installs chrome for you on the CD too

if you want chromium, alienbob has packages and slackbuilds for it

yea i need to get around to it. i heard that the reason why netflix wont play is because of an outdate codec, but when i tried to manually install it, it still wouldnt work.

I use Gentoo myself and I could have a zoomer for a child. I'm just looking for something without systemd for a friend who is not suffieciently motivated that I can expect him to manually track dependencies for a lot of things. Why do you have to insult right off the bat? Tell me what the benefits are, because keeping track of dependencies sounds like LFS-tier stuff and I'm trying to understand if it's actually more managable than it sounds.

if you want an aptitude resembling dependency resolver, look at eznix's tutorial on installing slapt-get. it behaves similarly to aptitude. to answer your first question this is Jow Forums and not plebbit so i dont know why your expecting this to be a hugbox. if you installed gentoo then the dependency management is nothing compared to what you have done so i assume you will have the patience. its not as bad as you think it is. the distro is kind of finnicky in the sense that a few things that you take for granted on other distros needs further configuration but i enjoy it.

I don't by any means expect a hugbox; I've been here long enough. The zoomer-with-no-attention-span judgement was just very unfounded, that's it.

Thank you. However, as I said, I won't be doing the managing, and I'm shopping for a distro for a friend. Knowing him, he'll just fuck it up burden me with fixing stuff, so I'm leaning towards alpine currently.

stop with the reddit spacing bugman. if your friend is a retard and cant do his own distro shopping then i advise you install debian. you dont need to force the anti-systemd autism on him if he is to stupid to find a distro that would work for him. debian is pretty stable and just werks. obviously not as stable as slackware, but if your friend is not a fag/g/ot then i would not recommend installing slackware because like you said he will probably pester you with his problems

so what's a good way to tell what dependencies i'm missing? can i just run ldd on every program?

also can i install slackware without actually going through the installer's package install step? i've been thinking of just feeding installpkg a small list of packages next time around

>16 (32) gigabytes of free memory
>i3
>urxvt
>bash
>htop
>ranger
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other than i3 how is the rest gay

i just dont understand why you would go so far to use such a minimalist selection of software when you have plenty enough ram at your disposal. even i having only 2 gigabytes of ram can afford to use xfce4-terminal to get tabs and whatnot (which for one thing i would think to be indispensable while using a tiling window manager). i have a feeling you aren't even using a compositor despite that lowering cpu usage

Back in 2014 junior year of hs, my school had a shit ton of ThinkPads for students to use during class time. Can't remember if they were t410 or t420's, but the majority of them had Ubuntu installed while the rest had slackware for some fucking reason.
The following year we got chromebooks.
Don't know what happened to those computers as I never saw them again.
I can't imagine 1000+ ThinkPads with slackware and Ubuntu in the dumpster

i do not use a compositor. i get higher cpu usage when i use compton and im not aware of the benefits of using a compositor. i like urxvt because of the image previews in ranger. i did fall for the 16gb of ram meme but there is no reason for me to remove it from my computer if i bought it.