Main system will stay on 15.0. My work computer that I mainly use windows on, but keep a Slackware partition, I will probably run 15.0 for a while then switch to -current on that machine.

I'm skipping the champagne,
but I'm going to party

I live on two-hundred acres of Oregon forested hills and grassy valleys, with a river running through it. It is an event venue with: wifi, outdoor covered kitchen with 8 burner tops and two ovens, three outdoor showers, 8 portable toilets, a covered stage, rideable horses, and enough campsites to host up to 1,500 guests. There's space to be as intimate or separate as individuals desire.

You're all invited!

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After further consideration about doing a clean installation of 15.0 I've decided to modify /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. When 15.0 is released Slackware64-current and 15.0 will be identical. So I will comment out my -current mirror on my T420 Thinkpad and add a mirror for 15.0, then update slackpkg. I'll keep my two -current work stations on -current.

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Nas Server & Laptops are slated for 15.0

Two Desktops will continue with current

Run 15.0 in a VM, and start the long process of rebuilding all my libraries/programs from slackbuilds.org (~20GB) , and only when that is complete, then I will do a fresh install; and then be able to install the programs/libraries I had.

Switch to a Slackware 15 stable mirror. Rebuild and install my needed slackbuilds packages.

Migrate my regular workflow to Slackware from Windows.

I will continue to contribute to the Slackware project via Patreon

;-)

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Also, I haven't decided if I will be having a few drinks when doing a fresh install of 15.0 -- I mean, just a few drinks , what could go wrong?

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you know:
"come on, one more and then it's over …"

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[slurred_speech]"I compute better, when I've had a few....."[/slurred_speech] *hiccup*

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Invite all my friends over for an install party? (Masked and distanced of course?) 😏

More seriously, I'll be hopping off the -current train in favor of fewer big upgrades and enjoying the relative stability of 15.0.

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I'll be wiping a number of interim and experimental installs (ext4 is just fine... xfs, jfs, and btrfs were not game changers for me) and updating some SBO packages and be glad I'm unlikely to exceed my fibre plan for a good while.

Oh that reminds me, I can finally format / as F2FS since I have a SATA-SSD; I would also be curious for any others who have emmc/NAND - how well it worked using something like F2FS.

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Same here, apart from the “~20GB” bit – I think I have “only” ~3 GB worth of non-standard packages to rebuild.

And I will use that opportunity to do a bit of cleaning up, because I am quite sure there are packages that I don’t need anymore. So maybe in the end I’ll be down to ~2.5 GB.

-wait a week or two, just in case
-upgrade my desktop from 14.2 (a few updates here and there as needed) to 15.0, migrate my custom scripts, etc.. Install required packages (Citrix to access work, etc).

-debate whether it's worth upgrading my mdadm raid samba / plex server (currently 14.2, running fine, nothing to report). Any real benefits? It's a 3570k w/ 8 GB (maybe 16 GB soon) - nothing runs slow in any way.. Has Samba improved significantly in the last 5 years? Plex server?

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I am not sure what I will do.

I was a slackware user for many years. I started soon
after linux came on the scene. That was way back there.
I started using it somewhere in the early 1990s.

There was not much to choose from in those days,
slack, redhat, maybe something else. Then came
suse, and I tried them all.

At first I used slack. Redhat just did not work for
what I tried there.

I used suse for awhile then gave up on that and went
back to slack.

I used slack for a long time, maybe up until about
2018, not sure just when I quit. Whenever it was,
it was because I started using ubuntu.

I have been using ubuntu since then.

ubuntu seems to me to be near perfect. Yea it has
some things I would rather see different, but all
in all, it has become my operating system for a number
of years. I also use Mac and Windows 10, just hate
windows 10, seems like the biggest piece of crap
man could have come up with, just personal opinion
there. Mac works good, but some things bother me
about it, still I would have no problem living with
it.

I had such a long history with slackware, I hate to
leave it behind, but it gave me more problems than
ubuntu, so I gravitated to ubuntu.

So, is there some reason I ought to get slackware
again when 15.0 comes out?