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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      1 year 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
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        1 year 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
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          1 year 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
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            1 year 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
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              1 year 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
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                1 year ago

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