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Sigh.
Since I've run Slackware desktop PCs here for ages, anywhere from 2-6 systems, current a pair each with 14.2 and current, for all my desktop computing needs (finance stuff, news feeds, web surfing, video player, music player, some light programming, education, gaming...), which incidentally takes no more effort to keep running than MSDOS/Win3.x/WIn95/Win98 et al back in the day, I truly wonder, if Slackware, and indeed all "Year of the Linux Desktop" PCs, are truly dead, am I still alive? Is it all a dream of dying neurons that I am typing this message on a web forum, in Firefox, in Xfce-X.Org, on a modern fully updated Linux operating system connected to the internet?
Slackware is like the Schrödinger's cat, both alive and dead until one observes it. Then for some careful observers it is dead and for other not so careful ones it is alive.
Best Ivandi post for a while. Then again, you're a bit Schrödinger yourself
if i was the marketing guy for Slackware i would not be a happy man this morning. In retrospect, this should have been the response to @MX-angel
Your new here and i can sort of see where you are coming from. But no Slackware is very much alive i'd like to introduce you to slackware and show you its benefits, and maybe get you started with using it. Of course if you get any problems at all we are all friendly on this forum and i'm sure there would be many willing to help you out. Then you might have had a user; a user==supporter== £
Probably we will never know.
Has anybody heard the phrase " a little bit of sand, here and there can add up to a desert "
if i was the marketing guy for Slackware i would not be a happy man this morning.
This. If you care about public image you don't respond to trolls with flames. You take the criticism on the chin and calmly state your position.
In case this isn't entirely obvious, Slackware *is* the odd one out for not having a major release for so long. When you're the odd one out you can expect this to surprise people, some people will just get annoyed and troll (whether politely or not), others will leave. For me, trolling is a positive thing. If they bothered to post, that implies some kind of investment in the future of the distro. Why would they care, and why would they post *here* of all places, they have many other forums to choose from:
my point is that we do not know what was in the mind of MX-angel we do not know if he was intentionally provocative ; if it was a genuine issue of being naive then he was miss-treated.
My point is that responses might have been more considered and ultimately more users == more sustainability.
Responding or not responding to -ve troll is another point.
my point is that we do not know what was in the mind of MX-angel we do not know if he was intentionally provocative ; if it was a genuine issue of being naive then he was miss-treated.
My point is that responses might have been more considered and ultimately more users == more sustainability.
Responding or not responding to -ve troll is another point.
OP hasn't been back since his first post. Considering that along with how easy it would have been for him to find several nearly identical threads to his own, I think it is fair enough to assume it was just a drive-by troll job.
I've heard that the last update was back in 2016, so im wondering if slackware is still alive...?
I "entered" Slackware backwards in a sense... was initially fixed on MX Linux (which isn't very hard to fall in love with), but as I kept digging in old archieves and Linux "what, where and howto"'s lessons, I decided a purist DOS-like approach was the thing for me.
OP hasn't been back since his first post. Well lets say he was a troll so;
1)No its not safe to assume anything and your basically giving justification for repsonses
2) Do we stoop to his level
3) if he wasn't a troll does anybody really blame him for not coming back ?but I
@JanK ... seriously thinks Pat needs a secretary.
Not sure about that .. but I would have thought that for sustainability slackware needs every supporter and user it can get.
Last edited by captain_sensible; 01-31-2020 at 12:51 PM.
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