Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Dan Clough to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 25 2019 07:51 am

 DC> I use only Linux, other than a work laptop that I'm required to 
 DC> run Win10 on. A little past the 20 year point too. First ever 
 DC> install was Slackware (or maybe SLS, can't remember) from 
 DC> floppies... Eventually Redhat when it was still free, then 
 DC> Mandrake for a while. Back to Slackware around 2002 or so, and 
 DC> been there ever since. I do play around with other distros and am 
 DC> familiar with most of them, but Slackware remains my primary (on a 
 DC> Lenovo laptop). I also have a few RPi's doing various things, 
 DC> mostly running stock Raspbian. The BBS runs on a seperate small 
 DC> form factor Dell, also running Slackware.

Heh. I've actually turned down working for companies, because I always ask one
question during an interview. "Will I ever be required to run, operate,
configure, manage, or even so much as touch a Windows Desktop, or Windows
Server" And "Can I get an actual Linux oriented
Workstation?" And I don't mean
a PC with Linux on it, I mean an actual workstation. :)

Slackware never really left me with good feelings. I don't like the
minimalistic approach to it, especially the, still lacking, support for
Linux-PAM. And the literal dictatorialship of Patrick Volkerding over Slackware
is not too intriguing to me either. I respect the distro, being one of the
earlier distros out there and still being maintained to this day, but that's
about where it ends.. For me anyway.

But, the good thing about Linux is freedom to choose whatever you want to use,
and appreciate it for what it is, and does for you what you want of it. :)

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