Enjoying Slackware!
by Sufferin' Succotash from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4R1BC)
I just wanted to say that I'm enjoying the Slackware experience. I'm glad I'm on a distro on which I can remove an application I don't need without the package manager wanting to blow away my desktop environment, referencing my latest side adventure with Debian:
Code:apt remove gedit #(I got it in my head that I was better off learning Vim or Emacs; I chose Emacs - loving it)Apt: "okay, we'll remove Cinnamon too"
Me: "uh, WHAT"
Later:
Code:apt remove firefox #(was trying out IceCat)Apt: "okay, installing Chromium."
Me: "Wait, why? Okay how about this:"
Code:apt remove firefox chromiumApt: "okay, uninstalling Cinnamon"
Me: "alright, alright, I'll just hide it in the menu."
Slackware:
Code:removepkg seamonkey #(I really just did it in pkgtool)pkgtool: "okay, no problem."
I also just installed my printer in Slackware too! Until now I thought I'd always have to rely on a distro that does its plug-and-play magic in order to ever get it working, but I followed this link and decided to give the HP Device Manager -> CUPS web interface a try. It detected my printer, and after finding the PPD file here, I was all set!
Sure there's been a couple mild hiccups:
Also, thanks to Eric Hameleers for his LibreOffice build (repo) - it works for me perfectly without me needing fill my system up with other packages as dependencies. I needed it since I opted out of installing the KDE set (installing Calligra on its own obviously didn't work without some other libraries, and the Abiword slackbuild failed at compile time, perhaps because I'm on -current).
Code:apt remove gedit #(I got it in my head that I was better off learning Vim or Emacs; I chose Emacs - loving it)Apt: "okay, we'll remove Cinnamon too"
Me: "uh, WHAT"
Later:
Code:apt remove firefox #(was trying out IceCat)Apt: "okay, installing Chromium."
Me: "Wait, why? Okay how about this:"
Code:apt remove firefox chromiumApt: "okay, uninstalling Cinnamon"
Me: "alright, alright, I'll just hide it in the menu."
Slackware:
Code:removepkg seamonkey #(I really just did it in pkgtool)pkgtool: "okay, no problem."
I also just installed my printer in Slackware too! Until now I thought I'd always have to rely on a distro that does its plug-and-play magic in order to ever get it working, but I followed this link and decided to give the HP Device Manager -> CUPS web interface a try. It detected my printer, and after finding the PPD file here, I was all set!
Sure there's been a couple mild hiccups:
- The installer doesn't play well with my NVMe drive, but I learned how to use efibootmgr and set up elilo manually.
- My second monitor wasn't being detected by X and partially upgrading xf86-video-amdgpu didn't work, but I just upgraded to -current and it works just fine now; the linux firmware already comes installed from the Slackware .iso which helped. I've also subscribed to the security mailing list and set up a script to wget the ChangeLog every day now since I've left stable.
- man and man-pages got blown away by slackpkg clean-system, but I just added them back from the .iso and blacklisted them in slackpkg, no problem.
Also, thanks to Eric Hameleers for his LibreOffice build (repo) - it works for me perfectly without me needing fill my system up with other packages as dependencies. I needed it since I opted out of installing the KDE set (installing Calligra on its own obviously didn't work without some other libraries, and the Abiword slackbuild failed at compile time, perhaps because I'm on -current).