I want to run Slackware for religious reasons but the "no package management" thing has me prioritizing my Slack over learning how to Slackware (just as Dobbs intended.) For now Fedora will do I suppose.
It has a base installation, slackbuilds (like the AUR, with helpers that resolve dependencies) and you can install flatpak.
I don't ever hunt for dependencies.
But yeah, if you're happy with Fedora, there's absolutely no reason to switch.
Well I do at least want to try it out, the creator is a SubGenius (thus the name "Slack"ware) as am I, so that's reason number one, and SW is less likely to have a canonical moment (like ubuntu ykwim) than Fedora.
That is good to know that you don't have to hunt for the dependencies though because that's definitely one of the biggest things holding me back from trying it yet!
I mapped a random lil town in OpenStreetMap and found out the creator of Slackware lives there..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebeka,_Minnesota
Slackware, my beloved 🖤
Best distro out there ❤️
Praise "Bob"!
I want to run Slackware for religious reasons but the "no package management" thing has me prioritizing my Slack over learning how to Slackware (just as Dobbs intended.) For now Fedora will do I suppose.
It has a base installation, slackbuilds (like the AUR, with helpers that resolve dependencies) and you can install flatpak.
I don't ever hunt for dependencies.
But yeah, if you're happy with Fedora, there's absolutely no reason to switch.
Well I do at least want to try it out, the creator is a SubGenius (thus the name "Slack"ware) as am I, so that's reason number one, and SW is less likely to have a canonical moment (like ubuntu ykwim) than Fedora.
That is good to know that you don't have to hunt for the dependencies though because that's definitely one of the biggest things holding me back from trying it yet!
Damn, a subgenius in the wild, don't see that too often.
Praise "bob"
I’ve never used Slackware. They just do package management with a bunch of bash scripts?
Yes, the package manager is a bash script.
The installer is a bash script.
The init system is bash scripts.
I thought Slackware did package management, but not dependency resolution.
It does both, but pretty rudimentary.
Same with Github Actions.
A platform purposely made to run bash scripts is using bash? Impossible...
Fuckin A! and it still works.