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This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I started playing around with Linux 25 years ago Debian and APT was a small revolution in how good it worked out of the box.

I tried to get into Red hat and SUSE and I always wanted up in trouble even before I got any Windows manager up and running. Don't get me started on RPM and dependency hell

Debian just worked. I had stuff up n running BEFORE I had to go down the rabbit hole to understand how all things was connected.

For a beginner that was a game changer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I had known about Debian and apt back then! I spent years distro-hopping because I was so tired of chasing down RPMs in redhat. Like seriously, you can't just tell me everything you need, and grab all those files at once when I try installing a package?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh. I've been a Debian (and derivatives) user since the late '90s, and you're unlocking memories of what chased me away from Red Hat distros back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to have been of service! 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I disagree with suse. suse was the first distro where I was able to get a laptop working completely without having to download additional drivers.