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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A wild slacker appears.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you your own dependency manager too?

Some day I'm going to get someone in one of these "what distro should I try?" posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sbopkg has a slackbuild queue generator sqg which builds the dependencies for applications in it for you. apart from that I'm trying to package ROCm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

I've not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It's something like Cuda for AMD?

Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its easy to forget it cause the name is forgettable lol.

yeah basically. Its annoying af to build from source.

yeah i would like to do that but baby steps it needs to build and work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come say hi at ##seven on libera.chat if you are so inclined. We're a group of wild slackers who all met on the main irc channel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

For sure.. And come drop in at #slackware:matrix.org if you use matrix. Its an unofficial room btw.