Slackware

“Even early Linux distros, like Slackware, were in better shape.”

“You feel more adventurous? NixOS, Gentoo, Slackware, Void.”

“It was super rough around the edges as a desktop, but absolutely an upgrade for a server.”

“Manjaro is in some ways a bit similar to oldschool slackware, which unfortunately kind of died”

“I adopted Linux in the very early Slackware days: I did dive all in and learned all that I could.”

“It is still a great distribution but it is not really active anymore.”

“Slackware in a NUC with a debblobbed kernel from Linux-Libre”

“Slackware's running just fine on this system I've got with 15 year old DDR3 RAM”

“I am not as sure about Slackware but I believe the single-core (non-SMP) kernel runs on Pentium.”

“when a distribution is no longer able to release .iso files, then it is in my book dead”

“The more straight forward (and 64 bit) candidate would be Slackware 15.0”

“discovering Slackware 10.2 back 2005, I was really blown away”

“the distro I use, Slackware, did not have this vulnerability”

“the only distro that encourages an update process with the requisite effort you should be putting in is Slackware”

“once it's done, it's done. I have configs from > 20 years ago that I still use without a hiccup.”

“I dual booted it to Linux and spent most of my time in Slackware.”

“I started Linux with Slackware and writing my own ppp up/down scripts”

“the community was hostile to anyone who didn't do the recommended full install”

“I used to love Slack, but they lost their way trying to compete with Ubuntu”

“Sadly distributions such as slackware kind of died”

“I can only think of one time Slackware broke things for me since I started using it around 2005”

“Slackware and Gentoo, on the other hand, were able to stay clear of the mess”

“it was intentionally simple, largely because it was created and maintained by a single person at the time”

“Slackware was an excellent learning experience and will always hold a dear place in my heart and memories”

“I switched (end of the 90's) from Redhat to Slackware and never looked back.”

“Slackware 2.0 was pretty rock solid by comparison and installed out of the box on most PC hardware I could find at the time.”

“It doesn't get in your way or flippantly change things from one release to the next.”

“Slackware unfortunately lost out to the modern world. But heroic effort by Patrick.”

“I got rid of them at the first available opportunity.”

“Slackware's package manager doesn't track dependencies and you can just install stuff in the wrong order”

“slackware slowed down a lot in the last some years”

“I have not had any UI issues in at least a decade on Slackware.”

“sadly it slowed down too much in the last 10 years”

“Slackware is in fact very simple in comparison to other distros.”

“In fact it has never been easier because flatpak allows you to easily install apps”

“Nothing beats the stale, pragmatic platitude of Slackware.”

“It worked with all the hardware I had, and worked better than MS-DOS”

“Slackware I stick with release because it is extremely stable”

“all your programs are up to date, and you get new releases much sooner than any debian variant”

“it was very bloated (for the time) and the users were expected to recompile the kernel”