Subj : Re: Arch Linux
To   : Chicken Head
From : Dan Clough
Date : Tue Jan 14 2020 20:08:00

-=> Chicken Head wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 >  CH> Convince me otherwise.  Like Gentoo, I've gotten part way through
 >  CH> this and realized "why the fuck am I doing this?"

 > Save yourself the time and aggravation of trying all that crap,
 > and just install Slackware.

 CH> You took the words right out of my mouth.  It's been eons since I
 CH> used Slackware last and I think I might give it a look again.
 CH> For what it's worth I started out using the very ancient SLS
 CH> distro that became Slack.  Then got sucked into the
 CH> RedHat/Mandrake/Debian/Ubuntu vortex (in that order).

I took the exact same path.  FWIW, I really enjoyed Mandrake for a 
few years until it went to crap.  Been on Slack since then.

 CH> Is it true Slackware is still systemd free?

Yes, it is free of that garbage, and likely always will be.

 CH> Or do I have to use Devuan for that.

I test-drove Devuan and found it not ready for prime time.  Maybe 
it will get there eventually.

One other non-systemd distro that I like a LOT is 'MX Linux'.  
It's also Debian based and quite nice.



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