I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.

  • downhomechunk@midwest.socialEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Are you your own dependency manager too?

    Some day I’m going to get someone in one of these “what distro should I try?” posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

    • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Sbopkg has a slackbuild queue generator sqg which builds the dependencies for applications in it for you. apart from that I’m trying to package ROCm.

      • downhomechunk@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

        I’ve not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It’s something like Cuda for AMD?

        Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

        • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Its easy to forget it cause the name is forgettable lol.

          yeah basically. Its annoying af to build from source.

          yeah i would like to do that but baby steps it needs to build and work.

          • downhomechunk@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Come say hi at ##seven on libera.chat if you are so inclined. We’re a group of wild slackers who all met on the main irc channel.

            • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              For sure… And come drop in at #slackware:matrix.org if you use matrix. Its an unofficial room btw.