I’ve been daily driving linux since the late 90s and have no idea what wine prefixes are!

Come back home!

Come say hi and be among friends! #slackware:matrix.org ##seven at libera.chat

Multilib + the slackbuild script. Slackpkg+ and alienbob’s repos make it super easy to keep a multilib system up to date. Slackbuilds.org is the first place I look if I want to install something new.

I do use flatpak for ultimaker cura, but mainly because there’s no slackbuild and so many python deps.

I should! I didn’t think I’d get more than a couple upvotes.

Thanks stranger! Just don’t ask me anything about systemd so I can maintain that illusion.

Slackware isn’t as hard as everyone thinks though. Throw it up on a vm and play with it! The install process is pretty easy.

Ha! You’re not wrong.

Exactly. Valve already know my OS and hardware profile. If the year of the linux desktop ever comes to pass, it won’t be as easy for game developers and studios to ignore us.

Because they don’t already have all this info and more about me?

Gold star for you!

This one: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/fileserver

Nextcloud was too high fallutin for me. I share a zfs pool with proxmox’s file server appliance.

There are tools to download, compile and install packages! Whether or how you use them is left up to the slacker. I use them, but I scrutinize most deps so that I’m not adding support for features I won’t use.

I think Slackware’s reputation for being difficult dates back to the 90s when all linux was difficult. Slackware has evolved just like everyone else, just differently. It’s easy to install, and works like any other kde plasma based distro if you choose the default full install.

The two biggest differences are no systemd and package management. Slackpkg functions somewhat like apt-get, but only for official packages and updates. Everything else can be installed with slackbuild scripts that can be automated with sbopkg. This process is similar to using the AUR with a helper like yay. And I have some flatpaks installed too.

Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap

I use a microSD to usb adapter and have 2 spinning rust disks. So it’s /sdc for me, but i still always double check. Dd isn’t called the disk destroyer for nothing.

The loyalists who replace the fired workers, duh!

Plug your usb drive in and run lsblk to figure out which letter to use instead of x in /dev/sdx

sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress

EDIT: I totally didn’t read your request. This is not gui or Mac based, but it still might help someone.

I should take another crack at sway. I didn’t know about EOS. I started with nwg-shell.

Remember the first time you got a printer working in Linux? Better than sex…