I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.

Like what? (Curious)

I’ve had good luck with these guys: https://cloudfanatic.net/pricing/

I think they would fall in the less resources category. But they offer unlimited data transfer, and you can use any distro you want. I run slackware btw.

This is the best advice. Heed it!

I’ve been daily driving linux since the late 90s and have no idea what wine prefixes are!

There are charities around me that take old laptops, put chromeOS on them and give to low income folks.

I cashapp sent her my life savings. She’s going to wire me back 10x that amount any minute now.

Come back home!

Come say hi and be among friends! #slackware:matrix.org ##seven at libera.chat

Multilib + the slackbuild script. Slackpkg+ and alienbob’s repos make it super easy to keep a multilib system up to date. Slackbuilds.org is the first place I look if I want to install something new.

I do use flatpak for ultimaker cura, but mainly because there’s no slackbuild and so many python deps.

I should! I didn’t think I’d get more than a couple upvotes.

Thanks stranger! Just don’t ask me anything about systemd so I can maintain that illusion.

Slackware isn’t as hard as everyone thinks though. Throw it up on a vm and play with it! The install process is pretty easy.

Ha! You’re not wrong.

Mine too! But for a couple days only.

Exactly. Valve already know my OS and hardware profile. If the year of the linux desktop ever comes to pass, it won’t be as easy for game developers and studios to ignore us.

Because they don’t already have all this info and more about me?

Gold star for you!

Nextcloud was too high fallutin for me. I share a zfs pool with proxmox’s file server appliance.

There are tools to download, compile and install packages! Whether or how you use them is left up to the slacker. I use them, but I scrutinize most deps so that I’m not adding support for features I won’t use.

I think Slackware’s reputation for being difficult dates back to the 90s when all linux was difficult. Slackware has evolved just like everyone else, just differently. It’s easy to install, and works like any other kde plasma based distro if you choose the default full install.

The two biggest differences are no systemd and package management. Slackpkg functions somewhat like apt-get, but only for official packages and updates. Everything else can be installed with slackbuild scripts that can be automated with sbopkg. This process is similar to using the AUR with a helper like yay. And I have some flatpaks installed too.