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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 12:35:18 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   So Slackware is a no frills very conservative distro, and CRUX is the distro officially endorsed by Al Qaeda. Got it.
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     stacksmash@loli.church's status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 12:59:17 JST stacksmash

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     @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com is Slackware good? what is your opinions on it vs other distros?

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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:03:48 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash I think it's okay, it just has a ton of stuff out of the box I'm never gonna use. I quite like the idea of slackbuilds though, basically a pkgbuild script except you have to provide the source code yourself. So slackbuilds are just a bit easier to read.
     
     It also includes sysvinit and stuff out of the box and ram usage is only at 110 mb on a test VM. I might install it later because there are slackbuilds for programs I want and I don't want to end up in debian dependency hell when I go outside of what's in the apt repos.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:05:21 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash What's installed on Slackware by default is the entire distribution, thus what I mean about excess fat. You can choose to omit some of the system during installation but it seemingly doesn't stop the packages from remaining on your system, which is annoying. I mean at least I have mariadb if I ever want to use it on my personal computer for some reason...
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:08:22 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash Compared to other distros? I mean Slackware just looks really old school. I think an experienced Arch user might be able to get the hang of it though.
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     stacksmash@loli.church's status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:08:52 JST stacksmash

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     @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com is there no OpenRC, runit or S6? I touched sysv before but it didn't feel great. I also never used it for enough.

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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:08:52 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash There's a slackbuild for openrc and people seemingly have gotten it to run before but your mileage may vary I guess.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:09:23 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash >seemingly doesn't stop the packages from remaining on your system,
     WHAT? yes it does lol
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:10:25 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @dcc @stacksmash Ehh queue me unchecking KDE and then updating the system using slackpkg and seeing it update a bunch of KDE crap I specifically asked not to have. :shrug_kon:
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:11:55 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash Did you install all? because thats the only way (i bet you did you silly goose)
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:13:00 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @dcc @stacksmash Oh. Yeah I think I did at some point. Is there a way to just update the stuff that's actually installed on the system?
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:13:50 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @dcc @stacksmash Oh no actually it was install-new I think.
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     stacksmash@loli.church's status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:13:55 JST stacksmash

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     @dcc@annihilation.social @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com give me a crash course on slackware. one fedi post. go!

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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:14:08 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash Yea just upgrade-all ?
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     zero escape (zero@nightshift.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:15:28 JST zero escape

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     i remember the gnome 2 window theme crux. had a nice gray / purple super nintendo vibe
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:16:03 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash Yea you installed new stuff retard
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:17:31 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash @nyanide You get eveything you want on base and for stuff you don't have you compile from a slackbuild (slackbuilds.org is the biggest rep) you also can go stable or current. Easy to install, no package dependences, it will never change your shit without you doing it.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:18:02 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • stacksmash
     @dcc @stacksmash Whups. Well I guess I just omit that command?
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:18:51 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash The only two commands to do are slackpkg update & slackpkg upgrade-all
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:19:36 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @stacksmash @nyanide Yes, it is updated even more though
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     stacksmash@loli.church's status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:19:37 JST stacksmash

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     @dcc@annihilation.social @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com is current equivalent to Arch stable or Gentoo unstable?

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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:33:01 JST 御園はくい

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash it just has a different dependency hell (doing a slackbuild for every member going up the dependency family tree
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 13:37:48 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash Uninstall kde ofc
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     pantherastare (pantherastare@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 21:25:43 JST pantherastare

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash openrc can run sysv scripts with LSB info so you can hammer slackware into working with it in few hours tops
     and runit is dumb and stupid and designed for one guy maintenance, including rewriting the whole suite if needed, so obviously doable too. I think runit on slackware is documented somewhere but I don't have it now
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     pantherastare (pantherastare@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 21:26:04 JST pantherastare

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     • stacksmash
     @nyanide @stacksmash the trve slackware way to use runit is to not break your init for no good reason and just use the supervisor where you want it, this sort of usage is well expected and documented in upstream
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