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Oh sweet child

Slackware current on btrfs for snapshots. Slackbuilds make the text go weeeeee, but the scripts will compile and build the package for you.

Plasma 6 hasn't come over officially yet, but the main guy who put plasma together has a testing version out.

You could probably get the official proton app running, but I'm good with protonvpn-cli.

It's been led by the same one dude since the early 90s. There's nothing close to corporate about it. And there are great communities on IRC and matrix full of knowledgeable folks. And there's linuxquestions.org too.

Thank you brave pioneers. I just felt confident to switch to btrfs last year.

I'm a long time slackware user, but I joined the party some time in 99 or 00.

I never had the pleasure of installing from floppies, but I did compile my own kernels to speed up boot time. Sometimes they would boot, sometimes they wouldn't. That was part of the fun.

I've been on a retro kick lately. I have a pentium 200 mmx based machine that will eventually run a floppy installed slackware. Or at least it will if I can get it to work.

I'm doing trisquel on a sugar toast for my 5 year old and she loves it!

Is that because you started doing drugs as a way to escape all of the pressure of having such high potential and low achievement? Asking for a friend...

Stremio is what finally got me to cut the cord.

Thank the maintainer of that slackbuild who probably got tired of people bugging him to update the script every time a new release came out and threw up that helpful note!

Your experience with Linux actually depends more on the desktop environment than the distro. The big 4 are called gnome, kde, cinnamon and xfce.

For users looking to migrate from windows, I always recommend kde. It's slick, full-featured, comes with a good catalog of apps and (imho) is the most windows-like experience. Kde is going to function mostly the same regardless of the distro you pick.

I'm a long time slackware user. Slackware ships with kde by default but will have a much steeper learning curve than previously mentioned distros. But if you really want to learn Linux computing then maybe give it a try.

Try tweaking this, courtesy of the slackbuild page for discord:

If you'd like Discord to continue working after an upstream update is released, but is not yet available on SBo, add the following to your user's ~/.config/discord/settings.json file:

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

Slackware is the only distro I've run since the late 90s. I'm not an IT pro or a programmer or even an advanced user.. Slackware just feels right. Give it a shot.

It'll go back up to the top 20 or maybe top 10 when a new version comes out. 15.1 should be ready soon. People still care.