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Not totally new to the Slack way, but I have had the longest run with .deb based systems. I had recently moved from Debian to Mint 12, It was underwhelming to say the least. My savior was Slacko puppy, a slack based puppy. It is the reason why I pushed so hard to find a great slack based distro. What should I expect from a Salix install, so far it has been a smooth install process, the quickest XFCE UI I have ever encountered, even in comparison to sidux and XFCE. The Gslapt setup and Sourcery are phenomenal for the pkg selection, only a few hiccups were discovered namely Google earth, and Chromium.

Just wanted to say its awesome to have found a slick Slack based distro, It seems to have started off on a good foot.
What are your feelings on Salix in comparison of all the others, and just what should a *untu regular expect?

8on3s wrote:
Just wanted to say its awesome to have found a slick Slack based distro, It seems to have started off on a good foot.
What are your feelings on Salix in comparison of all the others, and just what should a *untu regular expect?

Well a year ago i tried *buntu, it was terrible experience. I'm still shaking whenever I think about that.

At my work, most of all use some versions of Ubuntu, from the ones in 2010 to the last in 2011. Half of them (mostly new coworkers who just installed it on a brand new hardware) experienced freeze from time to time. Similarly, when I arrived, a computer with Ubuntu (first part of 2011) was given to me. After a lot of unpredictable freezes, I tested the RAM with memtest, then one asked me to stress test the processor too...so I did. No error at all. I was sick of it and reinstall ubuntu...still some freeze some times.
Ok, so after all this, I decided that I will install what I want, and installed Salix 13.37 (Xfce for me). From there on, all is working good and I have no freeze at all !

I don't know about the freezes but things breaking for no apparent reason is the way of *untus. All that have Slackware and most especially Salix
installed agree when I say that if you know Slackware you know Linux. You might get stuck sometimes (very very few) and when I say that you might get stuck I mean I'm stuck with a laptop in my work that I can't get slapt-get to pass the proxy I have in my company, but still I realy like Salix. Really, I guess I just had two problems with Salix: a laptop fan that didn't stop and the problem mentioned above.

i started my Linux experience with Ubuntu 8.10... it was easy for a windows user but IMHO ubuntu is too buggy but in the rest is a wonderful Distro.

Ubuntu 8.10 was my first Linux. Didn't care much for the baby-poo brown theme, but that was easily changed. 9.04 was better but slower, and I dealt with that by using their minimal CLI install and adding LXDE. Fast and light but buggy. I played with PCLinuxOS, Slax (actually installed to the hard drive like you're not supposed to do), Mepis, Crunchbang, Debian, and Mint. I discovered Xfce on Mint 9 and became an Xfce fanboy. When Mint Xfce switched to a Debian base they lost me (and maybe a lot of others for whom the Debian base was far more troublesome than the old Ubuntu base had been). I tried a couple more Xfce distros. PCLinuxOS had a Xfce edition called Phoenix which was gorgeous but egads, talk about bloat! As slow on my old computer as Mepis (KDE) had been. Back to the 'buntu family, I ran Xubuntu happily for awhile until they added PulseAudio and a bunch of other beta software which ticked me off, but it was easily removed at the time. I've been a Xubuntu fan until just lately, with updates coming fast and furiously even in the LTS edition. Two kernel updates in a single week, now my beloved favorite distro was scaring the heck out of me. "Broken after update" is a recurring theme in the 'buntu family, but it just doesn't happen in SalixOS. Not ever. "Lurking" in these forums before joining them (just yesterday), I looked back years and never saw a single "broken after update" complaint. Reading about Slackware's legendary stability and ultra-mega-super-duper long-term support, I was turned onto Salix after reading Caitlyn's review of it and her brilliant piece on why Ubuntu is a poor standard-bearer for Linux.

So this past week I tested Salix on a computer identical to my home computer and was completely stunned at it's phenomenal speed and simplicity. SalixOS is faster on this aging hand-me-down Dell than ever before. Between the rock-solid stability and ultra-long-term support of Slackware and the ease and simplicity of Salix, I was sold and have made the switch.

I remain a completely Salixified customer!