Out of the distros that are actually used by people as general OS, I’d say Slackware.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a soft spot in my heart for Slackware and I think there is a niche for “simple in design like Arch, stable like Debian”.
But a system that doesn’t boot after a kernel upgrade unless you manually copy the new kernel into your EFI path, rebuild the initramfs and point the bootloader to the new kernel, is just objectively outdated.
The community will refuse to help you unless you did a full installation, which includes multiple programs for the same task including 5 window managers, 2 desktop environments and around a dozen text editors and terminals, but no Libreoffice, Thunderbird, Gimp or Gnome.
And its official documentation contains gems like “Some modern computers have started to offer motherboards that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as a replacement for the traditional BIOS.”
It used to be a great distro in its time, but nowadays I can’t find a single reason not to use Debian instead.
I agree. I have a soft spot for Slackware but having to download all packages, dealing with nuances like the one you mentioned etc really makes me think newer distributions like Void might just be easier
Out of the distros that are actually used by people as general OS, I’d say Slackware.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a soft spot in my heart for Slackware and I think there is a niche for “simple in design like Arch, stable like Debian”.
But a system that doesn’t boot after a kernel upgrade unless you manually copy the new kernel into your EFI path, rebuild the initramfs and point the bootloader to the new kernel, is just objectively outdated.
The community will refuse to help you unless you did a full installation, which includes multiple programs for the same task including 5 window managers, 2 desktop environments and around a dozen text editors and terminals, but no Libreoffice, Thunderbird, Gimp or Gnome.
And its official documentation contains gems like “Some modern computers have started to offer motherboards that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as a replacement for the traditional BIOS.”
It used to be a great distro in its time, but nowadays I can’t find a single reason not to use Debian instead.
I agree. I have a soft spot for Slackware but having to download all packages, dealing with nuances like the one you mentioned etc really makes me think newer distributions like Void might just be easier