Re: Distros: The Gourmet Food Of GNU/Linux

On 8/3/26 21:25, Leroy H wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:34:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>>
>> Think of Slackware as kind of the “missing link” between an earlier
>> all-or-nothing installation like SLS, and the later appearance of
>> full-function package managers (Debian, Red Hat etc). It’s an
>> interesting historical relic, and fun for wannabe geeks who find
>> Gentoo or Arch or LFS too much to cope with, but I’m not sure why you
>> would want to inflict it on ordinary people ...
>>
> 
> Do not ever include that pile-of-garbage ArchLinux with the
> venerable Gentoo and LFS.
> 
> We do thank you.

   Arch has it's good and bad. Not gonna cuss
   it TOO much. Arch-derived are also currently
   Very Popular - so we're talking LOTS of people.

   Gentoo - NEVER liked it. Just TOO weird.

   Debs or Fedora - stick with them for the
   Smoother Experience.

   Linux isn't SMALL any more. The more complex,
   the more opps for ERRORS - maybe ones that just
   can't be solved except by 13-year-old ultrageeks
   living in the basement and on mass doses of caffeine
   and who knows what else.

   Hmm ... probably some 1999 version of Linux I can
   download somewhere ........ make a bootable
   partition ........