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Slackware is the oldest distro still being actively maintained. It's a fully featured and modern distro. KDE Plasma is the default DE but you can also choose XFCE, fluxbox and a few others out of the box or install whatever you like. It's a different way of doing things and it's not for everyone. But I've been using it more or less continuously since 1998 or 1999.

It has two versions. LTS is currently version 15. Slackware current is a bleeding edge rolling release. Eventually, they will take current and build a release candidate and then that will be the upgraded LTS version. There are also live boot ISOs available for anyone to try.

Link to Slackware 15 ISO: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-iso/slackware64-15.0-iso/ Link to Slackware current ISO (updated more or less daily): https://slackware.nl/slackware/slackware64-current-iso/ Link to LiveSlak ISOs: https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak Link to the documentation: https://docs.slackware.com/start

I don't! I'm occasionally in config files for this or that. I'm a simple man with simple needs.

That's a tax i think I could get behind in the US if it meant I could get what I want for a price that is fair.

I buy games. I subscribe to YouTube premium for ad free access to their content and music streaming library.

I refuse to pay $200 per month for a cable tv plan that has the 4 channels I'd want to watch and 2000 I don't give a shit about. I refuse to sign up for every streaming service under the sun to cobble together what I want to watch. So I pay what I think is a fair price for a vpn subscription, a debrid service and an iptv plan.

I'm more than willing to pay, just not what they're asking me to pay.

Slackware! It checks zero of your boxes, but you should still try it because it's the best.

Is there something wrong with me because I haven't felt the need to use anything but pico since I started linuxing in the late 90s?

That's true for me, but I've learned recently that's actually neurodivergence. A quality meme nonetheless.

Exactly! If everyone were more like me then we'd all get along!

A lot of people on both sides of the political divide could stand to step out of their echo chambers and learn to think for themselves.

I like lemming instead of lemmitor

Stremio is what finally got me to cut the cord.

Soulseek (nicotine) gang unite!

Nicotine is the Linux soulseek client.

Challenge accepted!

Thank the maintainer of that slackbuild who probably got tired of people bugging him to update the script every time a new release came out and threw up that helpful note!

Your experience with Linux actually depends more on the desktop environment than the distro. The big 4 are called gnome, kde, cinnamon and xfce.

For users looking to migrate from windows, I always recommend kde. It's slick, full-featured, comes with a good catalog of apps and (imho) is the most windows-like experience. Kde is going to function mostly the same regardless of the distro you pick.

I'm a long time slackware user. Slackware ships with kde by default but will have a much steeper learning curve than previously mentioned distros. But if you really want to learn Linux computing then maybe give it a try.

Try tweaking this, courtesy of the slackbuild page for discord:

If you'd like Discord to continue working after an upstream update is released, but is not yet available on SBo, add the following to your user's ~/.config/discord/settings.json file:

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

Disable ipv6 if you haven't already.

Slackware is the only distro I've run since the late 90s. I'm not an IT pro or a programmer or even an advanced user.. Slackware just feels right. Give it a shot.

It'll go back up to the top 20 or maybe top 10 when a new version comes out. 15.1 should be ready soon. People still care.

Slackware is as stable as it gets.