If you hate bloat you like Slackware. It doesn’t assume anything about how you want to use your computer, so it’s more painful for a lot of folks. Other distros will try to do things for you and will ultimately end up doing something someone doesn’t want. With Slackware you learn a lot and you get a rock-solid system that will do whatever you like, but you have to be willing to manage it.
I’ll look into that, thanks!
I just don’t want to be a windows systems engineer anymore, and I’m having trouble getting interviews for linux administration roles.
For sure, my company is willing to pay for it, I wouldn’t be paying for it myself.
I just don’t want to work with windows anymore, and every job I get is windows centric; therefore I get a small amount of linux experience on my resume and the cycle continues. I’m contemplating getting the RHCSA and the RHCSE in order to get linux-centric roles (because although I’m down to take a cut in pay and settle for a junior position, most of the jobs available seem to be for senior or mid-level positions).
SLACKWARE!!!
“Facts are like hips; they don’t care about your feelings”
This is quality content and why normal social media will perish underneath the inevitable swell of Lemmy.
What do you even tell your kids these days? “Work hard and you might have enough money to retire when you’re in your early nineties, or I guess you could drop out of school and have enough money from youtubing to put a glass dome over your private island to protect from the inevitable firestorms of the coming ecopocalypse.”
This is the type of high-quality content I demand from a platform.
SLAAAAAAACKWAAAAARE!!! Slackware is good.
Debian is a nice second.
Custom color-coding of subs was nice when you scrolled so far you forgot where you were.
Oh HELLS yes, this was the superior reddit app
Late reply, but I suppose you’re correct; I think the option to choose what to install, the lack of pre-created desktop stuff (“home/$username/Videos” for example) and the requirement that you handle software that isn’t in the base install all make a Slackware installation less bloated than most. Maybe not at install time, but over the life of the install you end up with less garbage IMHO.