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Slackware is a no frills distro and arguably the baseline for all linux distros. It’s appealing because of the lack of magic or distro specific customizations. If you want a distro that just lets you do what you need to do without getting in the way, it’s very appealing. If you want a distro that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot, look elsewhere.

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A bonus point is that Slackware does not rely on systemd. it is still a bunch of bash scripts that you can figure out what is going on.

^This!^

Slackware uses a BSD-style init system, where you just have one big shell script for booting the system -- you can read through it and edit it, it's all right there, self-contained.

Additionally, all of the old Unix tomes still largely apply to Slackware. That's increasingly, and distressingly, not true of most other distros.

> that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot, look elsewhere.

I remember having to re-run the installation many times, from selecting the wrong options during installation.

There's the best reason to use Slack: it builds character.

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