Slackware Has Attitude

When I first started my GNU/Linux adventures, I tried a lot of distributions. Slackware just fit me. It fit my personality. I seem to gravitate toward the mainline distributions rather than the forks. For that reason, you'll find Slackware (primary OS), Arch (secondary - fully synch'd backup OS), CentOS, and Debian on my main system. I run Slack on my laptop and shop systems as primaries also.

I wanted to learn about GNU/Linux. The best way I could do that was to try out as many different distributions as I could. At one time, I had 18 distros running on one system... a regular distro farm. I culled the crop down to the four above for the present, though. It's too time consuming trying to keep 18 distributions up-to-date.

Slackware wasn't the easiest distribution out there for someone coming over from MS Windows, but I managed. My experience with other distros helped. You begin to learn GNU/Linux regardless of distro. Eventually, you can install and operate most without any pain. I've stuck with Slackware because it's simple. It doesn't coddle the user. It assumes you know something about GNU/Linux.

There are many, many distributions out there. I tell folks that whichever one they find that works best for them is the one that is best. Who cares what distro you're using. At least you're not stuck with just one commercial operating system with limited options. With GNU/Linux you have options... simple (Ubuntu), moderately difficult (Slack or Arch), or a total nightmare (Gentoo ).

Have fun with it!

~Eric